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Rondel
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.]
2. Same as Rondeau.
3. Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth. E. W. Gosse.