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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Then that deity bright, who keeps in cities her high ward, Made to delight them a car, to the light breeze airily scudding, 10 Texture of upright pine with a keel's curved rondure uniting.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson
How have I, unaware, Forgetful of my strain inaugural, Cleft the great rondure of thy reign complete, Yielding thee half, who hast indeed the all?
From Poems by Thompson, Francis
This habit, however, is more noticeable in other passages where we come upon cilice, 467 egromancy, 468 verdurous, 469 vergier, 470 rondure, 471 purfled, 472 &c.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas
Deep in the rondure of the heavenly blue, There is a cup, concealed from mortals' view, Which all must drink in turn; Oh, sigh not then, But drink it boldly, when it comes to you!
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
Ariadne: I dreamed a dream of sadness and the sea, And I will turn again, if yet I may, To where the rolling rondure of the deep Broadly affront the sky's infinity.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
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