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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For the first time he realized the great rondure of the world.
From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher
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
There is no other rondure and no other fragrance like this.
From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
In Being's rondure do we stray belated, Our pride of manhood humbled and abated; Would we were gone! long since have we been wearied With this world's griefs, and with its pleasures sated.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
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 Khayyam, Omar
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