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‖ rond-point|rɔ̃pwɛ̃|
[Fr., f. rond round + point centre.]
a. In a garden: a circular space or centre whence paths radiate.
b. In a town or city: a circus or roundabout where roads converge.
1884H. James in Atlantic Monthly May 631/2 A jardin français..with little blue-green perspectives and alleys and rond-points. 1903A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car x. 120 Sloane Street, where anyone approaching town by way of Kensington, meets the first of the numerous metropolitan ‘rond-points’. Ibid. 121 A few doors from the ‘rond-point’ in Brompton Road. 1948Archit. Rev. CIII. 158/2 Foremost in his mind he must have had such questions as where to place his rond-points and their radiating streets, and how to co-ordinate and integrate the various units of the plan. 1964Shell Gardens Bk. 169 Rond-Point, a circular space or clearing from which avenues and alleys diverge or upon which they converge and from which one may get vistas of various parts of a garden or park. 1967C. Hussey Eng. Gardens & Landscapes 1700–1750 v. 41 The enclosing shrubberies were threaded by walks, straight for the most part but irregularly aligned, connecting sundry rond⁓points and mounds, to debouch at unexpected angles into the glade. |