Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poem similar to a rondeau, having 13 or 14 lines with two rhymes throughout. The first and second lines reappear in the middle and at the end, although sometimes only the first line appears at the end.
- noun A rounded or circular object.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poem in a fixed form, borrowed from the French, and consisting of thirteen lines on two rimes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.), obsolete A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
- noun Same as
Rondeau . - noun Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
metric form ofverse using tworhymes , usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in threestanzas , with the first lines of the first stanza returning asrefrain of the next two. - noun A poem in the above form.
- noun The verse form
rondeau . - noun A poem in the above rondeau form.
- noun A
rondelle , (small) circular object. - noun A long thin
medieval dagger with a circularguard and a circularpommel (hence the name). - noun A small round tower erected at the foot of a
bastion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I look up at the sky, and I see the strangest and most ominous sight: the sun is being devoured by a large, dark rondel, like a plate being passed before a candle.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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The external entrance focuses on a classic rondel in painted terracotta complete with a statue of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs surrounded by her seven sorrows.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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The external entrance focuses on a classic rondel in painted terracotta complete with a statue of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs surrounded by her seven sorrows.
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Among other rarities from the locality is the "Masovice rondel," of which a double circular ditch with a 110 metres in diameter has been preserved.
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Among other rarities from the locality is the "Masovice rondel," of which a double circular ditch with a 110 metres in diameter has been preserved.
Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008
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Aminxt that nombre of evelings, but how pierceful in their so-jestiveness were those first girly stirs, with zitterings of flight re — leased and twinglings of twitchbells in rondel after, with waver — ings that made shimmershake rather naightily all the duskcended airs and shylit beaconings from shehind hims back.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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As some mule in a glutinous sludge her rondel of iron.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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As some mule in a glutinous sludge her rondel of iron.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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For that matter, there's an odd section on page 104 where I ran into four English words that were all completely new to me - like replevined, rondel, misset and waddy.
Cities of the Plain: Volume III of the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy 2003
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Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe.
Ulysses 2003
chained_bear commented on the word rondel
A decorative feature of some champrons.
November 8, 2007