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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rondo
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▪ The barmaid was operatic: Teutonic hair; lipstick rondo.
▪ This is a very pleasant form, easy to grasp, and is obviously already very close to the later rondo form.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
rondo

Rondeau \Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See Roundel.] [Written also rondo.]

  1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.

    Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain.
    --Encyc. Brit.

  2. (Mus.) See Rondo, 1.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rondo

1797, "musical composition of one principal theme, which is repeated at least once," from Italian rondo, from French rondeau, rondel, from Old French rondel "little round" (see rondel).

Wiktionary
rondo

n. 1 (context music English) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. 2 A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy. 3 A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of ''Vitis vinifera'' with (taxlink Vitis amurensis species noshow=1) and others.

WordNet
rondo

n. a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata [syn: rondeau]

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Rondo, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 237
Housing Units (2000): 113
Land area (2000): 1.005771 sq. miles (2.604934 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.005771 sq. miles (2.604934 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60590
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.658789 N, 90.822236 W
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Wikipedia
Rondò

Rondò is a type of operatic vocal solo, popular in the late 18th century. The name identifies both a musical form and the type of materials used.

Rondo (grape)

Rondo is a dark-skinned grape variety, used for making red wine. It is a hybrid grape or inter-specific crossing. It was created in 1964 by Professor V. Kraus in then- Czechoslovakia by crossing the varieties Zarya Severa (a hybrid which has Vitis amurensis in its pedigree) and St. Laurent. He offered it to Dr. Helmut Becker (1927-1990) of the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute who conducted further work on it, which explains why the grape is known under a Geisenheim designation. The variety has been protected since 1997, when it was first planted commercially by Thomas Walk Vineyard in Ireland under the name Amurensis Walk; it was named Rondo in 1999.

This very early maturing variety possesses high resistance against winter frost and downy mildew from its Asiatic Vitis amurensis parent. However annual treatments against powdery mildew may still be necessary in the vineyards. Rondo produces a ruby-red wine which is also used for blending. Rondo is cultivated in many locations in northern Europe where dark-skinned Vitis vinifera varieties are difficult to ripen properly, as it tends to yield good colour and aroma even in those locations. Rondo is cultivated in Rheinhessen and in many locations in northern Europe including Denmark, England, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden.

In 2011 the British winery Denbies picked up a gold prize in the International Wine Challenge for their 2010 vintage Chalk Ridge Rose, a wine made entirely from Rondo grapes.

Rondo (soft drink)

Rondo was a citrus-flavored soft drink available in limited U.S. markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, one which was "blended from fine essences", and "lightly carbonated". It is mostly famous for its slogan - "Rondo---The Thirst Crusher" - as well as its commercials, featuring people crushing the cans in various ways. The cans featured bright yellow packaging for regular Rondo and green packaging for Diet Rondo. It was introduced in 1978 by Cadbury-Schweppes.

Schweppes sells a similar drink in Australia under the name Solo.

The drink and its name were parodied in the 2006 film Idiocracy as "Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator".

Rondo (film)

Rondo is a 1966 Yugoslavian film by Croatian director Zvonimir Berković. It was filmed in Zagreb, Croatia (then a part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).

Rondo (disambiguation)

Rondo is a musical refrain form

Rondo may also refer to:

Rondo (series)

The Rondo series is a children's fantasy novel trilogy written by Jennifer Rowe under the pen name Emily Rodda.

Rondo (novel)

Rondo is a dystopian novel by John Maher, published in 2010 by Pilgrim Press.

Rondo (group)

Rondo is a Moscow rock band formed in 1984.

Usage examples of "rondo".

And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.

Allegro and the great Larghetto with his most consummate artistry, and as the orchestra crashed into the Rondo finale his playing was surely that of the incredible Paganini.

I I in A-the grave and clear Andante, the quickening Menuetto, and finally the joyous Turkish Rondo, sending his spirits soaring after a tiring day.

They were sitting at a back table in La Rondo, a bistro and sandwich shop that was neither in Junktown or in the new city, but in the fringe area between them.

The parked cars began well before the corner of Rondo Vista and I had to pull over and continue on foot.