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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.
rondelet
/ ˈrɒndəˌlɛt /
noun
- a brief rondeau, having five or seven lines and a refrain taken from the first line
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rondelet1
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Example Sentences
Rondelet was in the middle of this crisis a man of transition, while he was one of progress.
Dysentery was epidemic at Toulouse then, and Rondelet took it.
Rondelet would have no tidings of his illness sent to Montpellier.
He had a villa outside the city, whose tower, near the modern railway station, still bears the name of the “Mas de Rondelet.”
After his release he gave himself up to science, with Rondelet, and the school of disciples who were growing up around him.
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