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noun

Rondeau n. (Written also rondo)

A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans.... In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain.

(Mus.) See Rondo, 1.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rondeau" Quotes from Famous Books

... following year the park began to take on the homogeneity which it had hitherto lacked. The great Rondeau, as it was called, and which became later the Bassin du Dragon, was excavated, and the Jardin Bas, or the Nouveau Parterre, with an oval depression, was ...

— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... stanza of the last rondeau—indeed, of the last poem in the collection, and the high, serene temper displayed in these lines serves at once as keynote and keystone to the book. The very lightness and slightness of so much of the work, its careless moods and casual ...

— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... lie in its two-rhyme limitation and the handling of the refrain. This refrain either rounds the stanzas beautifully or else plays dog in the manger with the sense. In the common form of the rondeau it is made up of the first four syllables of the first line and is repeated after ...

— Rhymes and Meters - A Practical Manual for Versifiers • Horatio Winslow

Words linked to "Rondeau" : rondelet, classical music, roundel, serious music