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‖ rondeau
(ˈrɒndəʊ, ‖ rɔ̃do)
Also 6 rund-, 8 roundeau.
[F., later form of rondel: see next.]
1. A short poem, consisting of ten, or in stricter sense of thirteen, lines, having only two rimes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain. (See also roundo.)
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxvi. 71 A boke..conteyninge all the songes, baladdes, rundeaux, and vyrelayes, which the gentyll duke had made in his tyme.
1691Dryden Amphitryon iv. [heading], A rondeau. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusements 132 Their most diversified Conversations are a sort of Rondeaus that end either in Artificial Slanders, or gross Flattery. 1710Pope Lett. (1736) V. 87 This sort of writing call'd the Rondeau is what I never knew practis'd in our nation. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. viii. §13 They dealt much in the rondeau, a very popular species of metre long afterwards. 1877C. M. Yonge Cameos III. vi. 46 She..used to sit up half the night writing ballads and rondeaux. 1889A. Lang Lett. on Lit. ii. (ed. 2) 25 In his first volume Mr. Bridges offered a few rondeaux and triolets.
b. transf. A refrain.
1800M. Edgeworth Belinda (1831) II. xxv. 178 This is the rondeau of your argument.
2. Mus. (See quot. 1841 and rondo 1.)
1773F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 186 Hetty..began a rondeau in the overture to Sacchini's new opera. 1786Gentl. Mag. LVI. i. 430 Rondeau. Sung by Mr. Weichsell and set by Mrs. Hook. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 142/1 Rondeau (Fr.) or Rondo (It.), a kind of air consisting of two or more strains, in which, after finishing the second strain, the first is repeated, and again after the third, etc., always returning to and concluding with the first. |