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rondel |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rondel \Ron"del\, n. [Cf. {Rondeau}, {Roundel}.] 1. (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rondel 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}]
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