What's the difference between rondeau and roundelay?

Rondeau


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.
  • (n.) See Rondo, 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The major basis for suspecting Griggs and Johnson killed Rondeau was the word of a snitch named Eugene Hawes.
  • (2) I went through a lot.” Zuley got an official commendation for the Rondeau case.
  • (3) Police and prosecutors gave conflicting accounts at trial about the existence of a videotape from a bank showing someone using Rondeau’s ATM card.
  • (4) After Johnson says Zuley and his colleagues threatened to take away her children and seek the death penalty, she signed a prepared statement and pictures of Rondeau.
  • (5) Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian On a rainy Halloween night in 1994, someone strangled 29-year-old Renee Rondeau to death in her apartment after she returned from an exercise class.
  • (6) There’s good detectives and there’s bad detectives, there’s good interrogators and there’s bad interrogators.” When Andre Griggs (left) got fingered by a snitch for the high-profile murder of Renee Rondeau (middle), he says Zuley and his colleagues coerced him into signing a false confession – following hours of shackling and withdrawal at a Chicago police precinct.
  • (7) Since June 2013, Zellner has spearheaded DNA testing on a green turtleneck sweater belonging to Renee Rondeau, which Johnson’s family allege police planted on Johnson’s mother’s back porch .
  • (8) She signed the confession Zuley and his colleagues prepared, and signed pictures of Renee Rondeau.
  • (9) We have previously demonstrated that a high percentage of rat cultured mesangial cells phagocytized serum-treated zymosan (STZ) (L. Baud, J. Hagege, J. Sraer, E. Rondeau, J. Perez, and R. Ardaillou, J. Exp.
  • (10) There was little physical evidence that Andre Griggs and Benita Johnson had murdered Rondeau.
  • (11) The cast of characters Griggs and Johnson said that they were shackled to a wall for hours while Zuley and that his colleagues coerced them, successfully, to confess to the 1994 killing of Renee Rondeau.
  • (12) The case riveted the city – Rondeau had been a homecoming queen – and became the stuff of tabloids and even a TV recreation .
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In the case of Renee Rondeau, Zuley and his colleagues had little evidence.
  • (14) Male Hybomitra illota (Osten Sacken) were found aggregating in clearings in wooded areas in Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
  • (15) Another crucial piece of evidence is a mysterious ATM video taken after someone used Rondeau’s bank card post-murder.

Roundelay


Definition:

  • (n.) See Rondeau, and Rondel.
  • (n.) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.
  • (n.) A dance in a circle.
  • (n.) Anything having a round form; a roundel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That Chekhovian title may have promised Woody Allen at his most pretentious, but this 1986 roundelay grossed $40m and became his biggest ever box-office hit.

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