ronde
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ronde
1830–40; < French, noun use of feminine of rond round 1
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
During the 90-minute class, instructor Jessica Jaye Mackinson taught us to chassé, sauté, ronde de jambe and grand battement, a fancy French word for a three-sided kick.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017
One of the most famous films of this kind is La ronde, the first of the four masterpieces made by Max Ophüls after his return to Europe in 1950.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2012
The party leaders want to avoid these dilemmas and play the game as it has always been played in France, as an endless ronde of Premiers, with every middle-ground group getting a chance at office.
From Time Magazine Archive
It yielded, and I walked through the tunnel formed by the thickness of the chemin de ronde.
From Kerfol 1916 by Wharton, Edith
The "Pont d'Avignon" is known to every French-speaking child, and with many variants the old "ronde" is sung and danced from the remotest plains of Canada to the valleys of the Swiss Alps.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
