RONDEL

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

Same as Rondeau.

3.
n.

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.


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