Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poem or song with a regularly recurring refrain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any song in which an idea, line, or refrain is continually repeated.
- noun Same as
rondeau - noun A dance in a circle; a round or roundel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Poetry) See
rondeau , androndel . - noun A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.
- noun A dance in a circle.
- noun Anything having a round form; a roundel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
poem orsong having a line or phraserepeated atregular intervals . - noun A
dance in acircle . - noun Anything having a round form; a
roundel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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This predictable roundelay is repeated so many times that I feel as though I could just fill in the words and dance the steps for each side and be done with it.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Is It Anti-Semitism? Rabbi David Wolpe 2011
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This predictable roundelay is repeated so many times that I feel as though I could just fill in the words and dance the steps for each side and be done with it.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Is It Anti-Semitism? Rabbi David Wolpe 2011
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It's the usual roundelay of friction and fun, though not terribly sparkling.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More! Michael Giltz 2011
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It's the usual roundelay of friction and fun, though not terribly sparkling.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More! Michael Giltz 2011
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This predictable roundelay is repeated so many times that I feel as though I could just fill in the words and dance the steps for each side and be done with it.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Is It Anti-Semitism? Rabbi David Wolpe 2011
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The magazine talks about hard work, but life in the country looks like an endless roundelay of making livestock look cute, cooking entrees that use four ingredients and serve eight, and taking gorgeous landscape photographs suitable for jigsaw puzzles.
Aww 2009
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This predictable roundelay is repeated so many times that I feel as though I could just fill in the words and dance the steps for each side and be done with it.
Rabbi David Wolpe: Is It Anti-Semitism? Rabbi David Wolpe 2011
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A conference panel never moves beyond a roundelay of blurb-speak.
Mayhill Fowler: Personal Democracy Forum 2010: Losing Faith in Obama and Big Government 2010
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Watching the Jingle Ball, a roundelay of bubblegum pop acts sponsored by radio station Z-100 on Friday night at Madison Square Garden, and perhaps more significantly, the screaming packs of 13-year-old girls who made up the largest portion of the audience, a reporter realized, to the detriment of no one, how much his taste veers toward that of a tween ' s.
Partying With Tween Crowd Marshall Heyman 2010
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Rather, with a roundelay of Housewives, appearances by the Millionaire Matchmaker, the occasional celebrity guest (slash friend of Mr. Cohen) like Jerry Seinfeld or Sarah Jessica Parker, and catch phrases like "Mazel of the Week," "Watch What Happens" is a fresh and funny half-hour for Bravo addicts around the nation, one of whom, of course, is this reporter.
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