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)
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
Her rondure floats against the distant cohorts of the constellations.
From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George
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