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Rondeau

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Noun

1. rondeau, rondo

a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

2. rondeau, rondel

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rondeau

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noun plural -deaux (-dəʊ, -dəʊz)
a poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes and having the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain
See also roundel

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Rondeau

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nounWord forms: plural ˈrondeaux (ˈrɑndoʊz ; ränˈdōz)
1. 
a short, lyrical poem of usually fifteen lines (three stanzas), with only two rhymes and with an unrhymed refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas
2. 
a. 
rondo
b. 
a medieval French monophonic or polyphonic song with many repetitions of two themes or phrases

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rondeau

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n. pl. ron·deaux (-dōz, -dōz)
1. A lyrical poem of French origin having 13 or sometimes 10 lines with two rhymes throughout and with the opening phrase repeated twice as a refrain.
2. A medieval French song, either monophonic, as in the songs of the trouvères, or polyphonic in construction.

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