medallion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large medal or a circular decorative panel or ornament

   A bronze medallion of the founder hung above the door.

From French médaillon, from Italian medaglione, augmentative of medaglia ('medal'), from Vulgar Latin *medalia, ultimately from Late Latin medialis ('half', a half-denarius coin), from medius ('middle'). A large medal or circular ornament.

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