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   Rondeau , n. [F. See Roundel.] [Written also rondo.]
   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.
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   ☞ When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain.
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   (Mus.) See Rondo, 1.
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   Rondo , n. [It. rondò, fr. F. rondeau. See Rondeau.]
   (Mus.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. “The Rondo-form was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for musical construction.”  
   Grove.
   
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   (Poetry) See Rondeau, 1.
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