RONDELS

Noun

rondels

plural of rondel

Anagrams

• Lordens, Nolders, rondles, slendro

Source: Wiktionary


RONDEL

Ron"del, n. Etym: [Cf. Rondeau, Roundel.]

1. (Fort.)

Definition: A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.]

2. Etym: [F.] (a) Same as Rondeau. (b) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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