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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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
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 Whitman, Walt
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
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 that system of these groups of particles which is enclosed within the rondure of the seed must have within it the ideal of the rose to be.
From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir
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