Definitions for rondeau

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rondeau ron·deau

Spelling: [ron-doh, ron-doh]

IPA: /ˈrɒn doʊ, rɒnˈdoʊ/

Rondeau is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in rondeau (adenoru).

Definitions for rondeau

noun

1. Prosody. a short poem of fixed form, consisting of 13 or 10 lines on two rhymes and having the opening words or phrase used in two places as an unrhymed refrain.
2. a 13th-century monophonic song form consisting of two phrases, each repeated several times, and occurring in the 14th and 15th centuries in polyphonic settings.
3. a 17th-century musical form consisting of a refrain alternating with contrasting couplets, developing in the 18th century into the sonata-rondo form.

Origin of rondeau

1515-25; Middle French: little circle; see rondel

Examples for rondeau

The triolet is a sort of abbreviation of the second variety of rondeau.

The rondeau is not in Lescurel systematised into any regular form.

She read the rondeau, scrawled in pencil on the back of a bill.

What shall I weave for thee—what shall I spin— Rondel, or rondeau, or virelai?

Villon has varied the rondeau so as to use for a refrain a single syllable.

This he followed by English versions of the rondel, rondeau and villanelle.

My old friend Gershom has very slyly written a rondeau to me.

I will make that all right, and what's the French chap's name—Boileau, rondeau, eh?

The rondeau was much cultivated by the French poet, Clment Marot.

rondeau was deposed and Lavalleja assumed the reins of power.