Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poem of five lines and two refrains.
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- noun A
metric verse (form), modeled after therondeau , in tworhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third andrefrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables
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- noun a shorter form of rondeau
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Old French, diminutive of rondel, rondel; see rondel.]
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Middle French rondelet
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bilby commented on the word rondelet
I just realised that WordNet's 'shorter' is referring to the poem, not the word.
February 7, 2009