rondel
A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in…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.
Meaning
5 sensesA 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.
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
The verse form rondeau.
A rondelle, (small) circular object.
(historical)A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
Scheibendolch
(historical)A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English rondel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine ofFrom Middle English rondel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).
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