'Rondel' definitions:
Definition of 'rondel'
(from WordNet)
noun
A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas [syn: rondeau, rondel]
Definition of 'Rondel'
From: GCIDE
- Rondel \Ron"del\, n. [Cf. Rondeau, Roundel.]
- 1. (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. [F.] (a) Same as Rondeau. (b) 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. [1913 Webster]