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Rondel

A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.

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noun
  1. 1

    A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.

  2. 2

    The verse form rondeau.

  3. 3

    A rondelle, (small) circular object.

  4. 4

    A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).

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