rondel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rondel	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 Synonym(s): rondeau, rondel
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.