rouelle

A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.

steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)

A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.

Louis IX. of France compelled every Jew, man, woman, and child, to wear a “rouelle,” or wheel of conspicuously-coloured stuff on the breast and back of the dress, that the Hebrew might be known at a distance.