Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A poem similar to a rondeau, usually having seven lines and always two rhymes, with the first line containing four syllables repeated as lines three and seven and the other lines containing eight syllables.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A poem of five lines and two refrains. The refrains repeat the first line, generally two words, the rime-scheme being a, b (and refrain); a, b, b (and refrain). It has been written in English, but not much.
Wiktionary
- n. A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables
WordNet 3.0
- n. a shorter form of rondeau
Etymologies
- Middle French rondelet (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, diminutive of rondel, rondel; see rondel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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Rime Riche
being words relating to the art of poetry
enjambment, prosody, meter, rhyme, foot, scansion, iamb, hexameter, pentameter, caesura, inversion, headless and 45 more...
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bilby I just realised that WordNet's 'shorter' is referring to the poem, not the word. Feb 7, 2009