rondelet

[ron-dl-et, ron-dl-et]

noun

a short poem of fixed form, consisting of five lines on two rhymes, and having the opening words or word used after the second and fifth lines as an unrhymed refrain.

Origin of rondelet

1565–75; < Middle French, diminutive of rondel rondel; see -et

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Historical Examples of rondelet

Rondelet was in the middle of this crisis a man of transition, while he was one of progress.
Health and Education
Charles Kingsley
Dysentery was epidemic at Toulouse then, and Rondelet took it.
Health and Education
Charles Kingsley
Rondelet would have no tidings of his illness sent to Montpellier.
Health and Education
Charles Kingsley
Rondelet, the son of an apothecary, was born at Montpellier on the 27th September 1507.
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus
William MacGillivray
After his release he gave himself up to science, with Rondelet and the school of disciples who were growing up around him.
Historical Lectures and Essays
Charles Kingsley

British Dictionary definitions for rondelet

rondelet

noun

a brief rondeau, having five or seven lines and a refrain taken from the first line

Word Origin for rondelet

C16: from Old French: a little rondel

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