RONDEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rondel mean? 

• RONDEL (noun)
  The noun RONDEL has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: RONDEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RONDEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rondeau; rondel

Hypernyms ("rondel" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rondel"):

roundel (English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third)

rondelet (a shorter form of rondeau)

 Context examples 

I tell you, my fair lord, she was saying, that it is no fit training for a demoiselle: hawks and hounds, rotes and citoles singing a French rondel, or reading the Gestes de Doon de Mayence, as I found her yesternight, pretending sleep, the artful, with the corner of the scroll thrusting forth from under her pillow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)