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rondel.

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.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  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. The verse form rondeau.

  3. A rondelle, (small) circular object.

  4. A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).

    historical
  5. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

    historical
Where this word comes from

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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