'Rondeau' definitions:
Definition of 'rondeau'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Rondeau'
From: GCIDE
- Rondeau \Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See Roundel.] [Written also rondo.]
- 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. [1913 Webster]
- Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) See Rondo, 1. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rondeau'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bucolic,
- canon,
- canso,
- catch,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- fugato,
- fugue,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- rhyme,
- rondel,
- rondelet,
- rondino,
- rondo,
- rondoletto,
- round,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troll,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay