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  • noun rare roundelay

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Examples

  • When I pointed out to them the obvious big polluter, refineries and the oil industry, they attacked me, claiming that the oil industry was "the most over-regulated", and, in a bizarre rondelay, declaring their undying loyalty to Big Oil: "I was raised in a gas station" and "My family has been loyal to the oil industry" just, presumably, to distance themselves from my critique of Big Oil.

    Big Oil suborns regulators, killing other industries and our health 2009

  • In the rondelay, a third dancer arrives to join a twosome, and then remains, as a former dancer departs, to shape a subsequent pas de deux.

    A Legacy Defined By Moments of Chance 2009

  • IMO, Bubba uses a shock post tactic and provides a useful counterpoint to the Forums, to what otherwise might be a rondelay of back scratching.

    Electric blanket or Down Filled Comforter 2006

  • Suddenly, in the stillness around, rose the voices of the dancers returning and singing the refrain of the rondelay:

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Suddenly, in the stillness around, rose the voices of the dancers returning and singing the refrain of the rondelay:

    A Woodland Queen — Complete Andr�� Theuriet 1870

  • Deep Blue Sea, a heavy relationship drama based on a Terence Rattigan play; 360, a sexual rondelay among different social classes; and Page Eight, a spy thriller.

    Default- News - USATODAY.com 2011

  • Deep Blue Sea, a heavy relationship drama based on a Terence Rattigan play; 360, a sexual rondelay among different social classes; and Page Eight, a spy thriller.

    Default- News - USATODAY.com 2011

  • The Boys From Syracuse away from Errors, and all that remains is two sets of identical twins, a fishwife and some courtesans in a rondelay of mistaken identity.

    Cleveland Scene 2009

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