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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I have felt the rondure of the infant's tender form.
From The World I Live In by Helen Keller
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
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 Francis Thompson
Her rondure floats against the distant cohorts of the constellations.
From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer
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 Omar Khayyam
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