rondeau
noun
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.
rondeaux
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pluralof rondeau.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But that this effeminacy was no natural or inevitable fault of the ballades and the rondeaux was fully proved by the most remarkable literary figure of the 15th century in France.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Eighty thousand lines, twelve hundred ballades, nearly two hundred rondeaux, a vast unfinished satire on woman, the Miroir de Mariage, fatigued even his own age, and the official court poet of France outlived his fame.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
On the margins he drew faces or began rondeaux which came to no end.
From The Grey Cloak by Thomas Mitchell Peirce
His poems are chiefly occasional verse, letters, débats, etc., besides ballades and rondeaux of all kinds.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Day after day, her intimate friends found her playing battledoor or the Graces, or practising pretty French romanzas, flowery rondeaux, or lively dances.
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
