Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Rondel
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English
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African
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French
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Ron"del
Senses
- [Fort] A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.(Obs)
Etymology: F
- Same as Rondeau.
- 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.
- Same as Rondeau.
Etymology: Cf. Rondeau Roundel
Other Dictionary Sources
- 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
Wiktionary
From Middle English, from Old French, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront (“circular”), probably originally *redond, from Latin rotundus (“like a wheel, circular, round”)., related to rota (“wheel”).
- 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.
- The verse form rondeau.
- A rondelle, (small) circular object.
- A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
- A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
rondel was also found in the following language(s): Old French and Polish