rondeaus

Noun

rondeau (plural rondeaux or rondeaus)

1. A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
   • Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), […].1914, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder, page 198
2. A monophonic song with a two-part refrain.
   • Still should not reference perchance be made to the rondeaus [which?] C. P. E. Bach presented in his last sonata collection?1968, American Musicological Society, Journal of the American Musicological Society, volumes 21-22, page 434
3. Synonym of rondeau pan; a shallow pot or pan that can be used for braising.

   Synonyms:

   rondeau pan

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