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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
Rondeaux (plural Rondeauxs)
A surname.
rondeaux
plural of rondeau
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
30 May 2025
(noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. Itβs also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.