roundelay
(noun) a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain
Source: WordNet® 3.1
roundelay (plural roundelays)
(music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
A dance in a circle.
Anything having a round form; a roundel.
Source: Wiktionary
Round"e*lay, n. Etym: [OF. rondelet, dim. of rondel. See Roundel, Roundeau, and cf. Roundlet, Rundlet.]
1. (Poetry)
Definition: See Rondeau, and Rondel.
2. (Mus.) (a) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively. Spenser. Tennyson. (b) A dance in a circle.
3. Anything having a round form; a roundel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
