Here we pass into the later form called (for convenience only) the rondeau.
What shall I weave for thee—what shall I spin— Rondel, or rondeau, or virelai?
rondeau, one of the generals who had helped depose Posadas and Alvear, had been rewarded with command of the army of the north.
The triolet is a sort of abbreviation of the second variety of rondeau.
Get the mill-crew together and phone for rondeau and his woods-crew.
My old friend Gershom has very slyly written a rondeau to me.
Your woods-boss, rondeau, will also swear that you approached him with a proposition to do away with Bryce Cardigan.
This he followed by English versions of the rondel, rondeau and villanelle.
The rondeau was much cultivated by the French poet, Clment Marot.
I will make that all right, and what's the French chap's name—Boileau, rondeau, eh?
1520s, from Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel "short poem" (see rondel). Metrical form of 10 or 13 lines with only two rhymes.
