Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A circular or gracefully rounded object.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A round; a circle; a curve; a swell; roundness. Also
roundure .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A round; a circle.
- noun rare Roundness; plumpness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
graceful round object, or a gracefulcurvature - noun a ring or sphere
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the man of Al – Yaman, the master of the handmaids, signed to the fat girl who rose and, pointing her finger at the slim girl, bared her calves and wrists and uncovered her stomach, showing its dimples and the plump rondure of her navel.
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Then she stripped off her outer gear and she threw open her chemise from the neck downwards and showed her parts genital and all the rondure of her hips.
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Presently she anounced the glad tidings to her husband and led her usual life until her nine months of pregnancy were completed and she bare a male child whose face was as the rondure of the moon on its fourteenth night.
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On her right cheek is a mole and on her waist, under her navel, is a sign; her face shines as the rondure of the moon in sheen, her waist is slight, her hips a heavy weight, and the water of her mouth the sick doth heal, as it were Kausar or
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So Abdullah entered and the Merman cried out, saying, “Ho, daughter mine!” when behold, there came to him a damsel with a face like the rondure of the moon and hair long, hips heavy, eyes black-edged and waist slender; but she was naked and had a tail.
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Then he looked at the damsel and saw her surpassing beauty and loveliness and symmetry and perfect grace, with a face like the rondure of the moon at its full or the sun shining in the sheeny sky.
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Texture of upright pine with a keel's curved rondure uniting.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Her décolletage had slipped somewhat, revealing additional rondure.
Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006
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Texture of upright pine with a keel's curved rondure uniting.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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And of course in each skull, in each rondure of vacated eye, he saw the boy's face.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
mutandis26 commented on the word rondure
Noun. A circular or gracefully rounded object.
September 1, 2009
Literarylee commented on the word rondure
Rondure rolls off my tongue, graceful, peaceful, elegant. I met it when memorizing "Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd," by Walt Whitman.
June 14, 2011