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A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

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.

Same as Rondeau.

A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

To unfold leaves, as plants.

The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.

A member of the Fronde.

Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.

an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.

ret wines, including several varieties, from the district of Médoc in the department of Gironde.

A rondeau. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Rondeau, 1.

A rondelay. "Sung all the roundel lustily." Chaucer. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. Shak.

See Rondeau, and Rondel.