Rondel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A poem similar to a rondeau, having 13 or 14 lines with two rhymes throughout. The first and second lines reappear in the middle and at the end, although sometimes only the first line appears at the end.
  • n. A rounded or circular object.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A poem in the above form.
  • n. The verse form rondeau.
  • n. A poem in the above rondeau form.
  • n. A rondelle, (small) circular object.
  • n. A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
  • n. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
  • n.
  • n. Same as Rondeau.
  • n. Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A poem in a fixed form, borrowed from the French, and consisting of thirteen lines on two rimes.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    poem    verse form   
    Variant
    rondeau   
    Hyponym
    roundel    rondelet   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    roundel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ballade    triolet    Carroll    epilogue   
     
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