α. Middle English–1500s rondlette, late Middle English (1800s irregular) rondelette.
β. late Middle English–1500s rondlet, 1500s rond'lett, 1500s 1900s– rondelet.
单词 | rondelet |
释义 | rondeletn.α. Middle English–1500s rondlette, late Middle English (1800s irregular) rondelette. β. late Middle English–1500s rondlet, 1500s rond'lett, 1500s 1900s– rondelet. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle rondelc1300 roundelc1300 circlec1305 compass1340 rondelet1385 cerne1393 burrc1440 orba1460 O1492 O1531 circular1575 rotundo1614 rhomb1656 circumference1667 1385 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 265 (MED) In tribus rondlettys emptis pro rasturis, 4 d. 2. A short poem related to the rondeau, and typically consisting of five or seven lines with two rhymes; the verse form in which this is written; (also more generally) = rondeau n. 1. Cf. rondel n. 2, roundlet n.In the longer version, the opening part of the first line may be used as a refrain. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > rondeau > short roundletc1415 rondeletc1475 c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A. l. 1031 (MED) Vse no tauernes wher be gestis and fables, Synggyng of lewde baladis, rondelettes, and verelaies. 1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 204 I haue thought good..to present you with this written booke, wherein you shall find a number of Sonets, layes, letters, Ballades, Rondlets, verlayes and verses. 1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. U.jv Then haue you also a rondlette, the which doth alwayes end with one self same foote or repeticion, and was thereof (in my iudgement) called a rondelet. 1578 T. Newton in W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye Thy gallaunt Layes, thy Rond'letts, and thy Songes. 1852 Men of Time 146 His compositions..consist of dances, songs, fantasies, rondos, rondelettes, and pieces of a like character. 1896 S. W. Mitchell Coll. Poems 205 A fellow came who wooed my dame in verse, And did it neatly,—made her triolets Rhyming her great blue eyes to violets; Wrote chansons, villanelles, and rondelettes. 1919 E. P. Lovejoy House of Good Neighbor vii. 93 Blankets were strung in irregular, zigzag formation, which..somehow reached down through the cobwebs of my subconsciousness and brought up nursery rhymes and rondelets that were stored there and forgotten many years ago. 2002 M. Weigel tr. J. Ludmer Gaucho Genre ii. 121 The world of satire, with the refrains, rondelets, invectives, and romances that the periodicals of the epoch exchanged from 1820 on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1385 |
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