rondure

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Its rondure is perfect.

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  1. noun A circular or gracefully rounded object.

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  • Its rondure is perfect. —  The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1
  • So after padlocking his shop he went with her to the house and walked upstairs, where he was met by the lady with a face like the rondure of the moon and she greeted him right merrily, and taking him by the hand led him to a well-mattressed Divan and bade her slave-girl serve him with coffee, and as he drank it she sat facing him. —  Arabian nights. English
  • On her right cheek is a mole and on her waist, under her navel, is a sign; her face shines as the rondure of the moon in sheen, her waist is slight, her hips a heavy weight, and the water of her mouth the sick doth heal, as it were Kausar or Salsabil. —  Arabian nights. English
  • Then he looked at the damsel and saw her surpassing beauty and loveliness and symmetry and perfect grace, with a face like the rondure of the moon at its full or the sun shining in the sheeny sky. —  Arabian nights. English
  • Presently she anounced the glad tidings to her husband and led her usual life until her nine months of pregnancy were completed and she bare a male child whose face was as the rondure of the moon on its fourteenth night. —  Arabian nights. English
 

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  1. French rondeur, roundness, from Old French, from ronde, round; see round1.

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  1. from French rondeur, roundness, from rond, round: see round.
 

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/ˈrɑndʒjur/
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