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Rondel

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    The verse form rondeau.
  4. 4
    A rondelle, (small) circular object.
  5. 5
    A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name). historical
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  1. 6
    A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. historical

Etymology

From 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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