RONDEAU

rondeau, rondel

(noun) 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

rondo, rondeau

(noun) a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

rondeau (plural rondeaux or rondeaus)

(poetry) A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.

A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.

Anagrams

• unoared

Proper noun

Rondeau (plural Rondeaus)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Rondeau is the 8475th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3894 individuals. Rondeau is most common among White (90.09%) individuals.

Anagrams

• unoared

Source: Wiktionary


Ron*deau", n. Etym: [F. See Roundel.] [Written also rondo.]

1. 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. Encyc. Brit.

2. (Mus.)

Definition: See Rondo,1.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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