rondeau
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rondeaux
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Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
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a 13th-century monophonic song form consisting of two phrases, each repeated several times, and occurring in the 14th and 15th centuries in polyphonic settings.
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a 17th-century musical form consisting of a refrain alternating with contrasting couplets, developing in the 18th century into the sonata-rondo form.
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Etymology
Origin of rondeau
1515–25; < Middle French: little circle; see rondel
Vocabulary lists containing rondeau
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In a large skillet or rondeau, heat olive oil until hot.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
And he has also put his stamp on some shapes like a wide, two-handled rondeau and a saucier, new to Hestan’s inventory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
My grandpa would listen to bob rondeau through his headphones.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
But isn't that permissiveness exactly what makes America work: this messy mix, this barbaric yawp, this redneck rondeau, this rude commingling?
From Time ● Jan. 28, 2014
I play the rondeau again, and I am Amelia, fifth-grade trombonist, harmony to Madge’s melody, a mouse with a megaphone, shouting, I AM HERE!
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
Virelais, rondeaux, ballades, chants royaux were the newer fashion; and the old versified tale of mirth and ribaldry was by the middle of the century a thing of the past.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
The rondeaux are full of puns in the refrain: “Houssaye ou c’est; lyre, l’ire, lire,” and so on, not very exhilarating.
From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang
The rondel, which Charles d'Orléans wrote with so much grace, he did not use, but his rondeaux are generally exquisite.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Adam had been destined for the church, but renounced this intention, and married a certain Marie, who figures in many of his songs, rondeaux, motets and jeux-partis.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
I also learned plenty of new games, and to sing rondeaux and embroider handkerchiefs for mamma.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
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