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rondel
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rondel \Ron"del\, n. [Cf. Rondeau , Roundel .] (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.] [F.] Same as Rondeau . Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two. 2 A poem in the above form. 3 The verse form rondeau. 4 A poem in the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas [syn: rondeau ]
Usage examples of rondel.
Impassive and silent, Rondel passed a sealed packet across Father Secorim, directly to Hubert.
Sir Rondel, am I to take it from your comment that you do not believe there ever was a codicil?
Lord Ainslie and Sir Rondel to round out the numbers, since Hubert and Secorim were otherwise occupied.
Julth Rondel, steward of Thirst, who came hastening down the steps to meet Dain.
His heart turned momentarily to lead inside his chest, and he was grateful when Rondel said nothing more about Lord Odfrey.
After the squires came the servants, beginning with Julth Rondel and continuing down to the lowest scullions.
Julth Rondel, steward of Thirst Hold, wanted to suspend the feast until Lord Odfrey recovered, but Gavril had insisted the celebrations go on as planned.
They left the house, and advanced to the Rondel, where the superb statue of Flora was reclining.
He saw the white rondel of it clearly through the fronds of the ferns.
French rondel, or reading the Gestes de Doon de Mayence, as I found her yesternight, pretending sleep, the artful, with the corner of the scroll thrusting forth from under her pillow.
I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.
His swordpoint scraped a rondel, and Dunk, overextended, almost lost his seat.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
Ignoring the path to the side, he mounted broad steps, crossed a verandah and approached a pair of narrow twelve-foot-high doors, studded with iron rondels bearing flying snake motifs.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?