Roun'çe-val1, a.
a. [From Sp. Roncesvalles, a town at the foot of the Pyrenees.] [Obs.]
- Large; strong;—from the gigantic bones of the old heroes pretended to be shown at Roncesvalles.
- Hence, characterized as, or pertaining to, a large size of pea, now called marrow-fat. Coles.