rondel
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- Scrabble points
- 7
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- 9
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- 6
Definition of rondel
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
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noun
- A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
- The verse form rondeau.
- A rondelle, (small) circular object.
- (historical)A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
- (historical)A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
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Etymology
From Middle English rondel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).
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