What's the difference between rondel and roundelay?

Rondel


Definition:

  • (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
  • (n.) Same as Rondeau.
  • (n.) 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.

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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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