rondel

Noun
Synonyms: rondeau

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. 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 stanzasSynonyms: rondeau
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Rondel \Ron"del\, n. [Cf. Rondeau, Roundel.]

1.(Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

2.[F.] (a) Same as Rondeau. (b) 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. --E. W. Gosse. [1913 Webster]

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