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Rondel vs Rondle - What's the difference?

rondel | rondle |

As nouns the difference between rondel and rondle

is that rondel is 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 while rondle is a rondeau.

rondel

English

Alternative forms

* rondelle (uncommon in the musical or poetic senses) * (dagger) roundel

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • A poem in the above form.
  • The verse form rondeau.
  • A poem in the above rondeau form.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * roundel

    Related terms

    * rondelet * rondo * roundelay * roundlet

    rondle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A rondeau.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) A round mass, plate, or disk, especially the crust or scale that forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
    • (Webster 1913)