meaning of rondelay
1. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
2. Same as Rondeau.
3. Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
4. a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
Related Words
rondel | rondelet | rondeletia |
