RONDEAUX

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


Proper noun

Rondeaux (plural Rondeauxs)

A surname.

Noun

rondeaux

plural of rondeau

Source: Wiktionary


RONDEAU

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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