rondure
Americannoun
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a circle or sphere.
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a graceful curving or roundness.
noun
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a circle or curve
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roundness or curvature
Etymology
Origin of rondure
1590–1600; < French rondeur, derivative of rond round 1
Example Sentences
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There is no other rondure and no other fragrance like this.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
But, in its visible stead, invisible fear Filled the vast rondure of the sea and sky As with the omnipresent soul of Drake.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes
Seems at its best some little fleet of boats, hugging the shores of a boundless sea, and never venturing, exploring the unmapp'd—never, Columbus-like, sailing out for New Worlds, and to complete the orb's rondure.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
And many a righteous man has burned to dust In heaven's blue rondure, but their smoke, where is it?
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
I could see no line the run of which gave me warrant that it was comprised in the rondure of a ship.
From Old Junk by S. K. (Samuel Kerkham) Ratcliffe
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