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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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