rondel
Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting usually of 14 lines on two rhymes, of which four are made up of the initial couplet repeated in the middle and at the end, with the second line of the couplet sometimes being omitted at the end.
Theater. roundel (def. 4).
Origin of rondel
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How to use rondel in a sentence
rondel made a movement as if to snatch the weapon from her, but she sprang back and pointed it at his head.
Prose Fancies | Richard Le GallienneIf Frédet was too long away from Court, a rondel went to upbraid him; and it was in a rondel that Frédet would excuse himself.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books | Robert Louis StevensonBut in the rondel he has put himself before all competitors by a happy knack and a prevailing distinction of manner.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books | Robert Louis StevensonThe belt over the hips of the cotehardie holds the purse, and often a ballade or a rondel.
English Costume | Dion Clayton CalthropThe rondel is merely the old form of the word rondeau; like oisel for oiseau, chastel for chateau so rondel has become rondeau.
British Dictionary definitions for rondel
/ (ˈrɒndəl) /
a rondeau consisting of three stanzas of 13 or 14 lines with a two-line refrain appearing twice or three times
a figure in Scottish country dancing by means of which couples change position in the set
Origin of rondel
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