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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There is no other rondure and no other fragrance like this.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
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 Thomas Wright
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
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 Omar Khayyam
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 Robinson Ellis
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