rondel

Meaning

A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
The verse form rondeau.
A rondelle, (small) circular object.
A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

From Middle English roundel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, probably originally *redond, from Latin rotundus ("like a wheel, circular, round"), related to rota.

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