rondel
Americannoun
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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.
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Theater. roundel.
noun
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a rondeau consisting of three stanzas of 13 or 14 lines with a two-line refrain appearing twice or three times
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a figure in Scottish country dancing by means of which couples change position in the set
Etymology
Origin of rondel
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French rondel, diminutive of rond round 1
Vocabulary lists containing rondel
Example Sentences
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As the Armorer gifts him with a new chest-plate, she says, “You will grow into this rondel as you grow into your station.”
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023
The beam moved to the first black disk, a rondel of engineered carbon now more than a decade old.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2019
The moon-and-falcon rondel over Ser Vardis's right arm was sheared clean in half, hanging by its strap.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
The earliest canonic form is the rondel or rota as practised in the 12th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
If Fr�det was too long away from Court, a rondel went to upbraid him; and it was in a rondel that Fr�det would excuse himself.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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