Brewer's: Rigol

A circle or diadem. (Italian, rigolo, a little wheel.)

[Sleep] That from this golden rigol hath divorced So many English kings.

Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV., iv. 4.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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