Note: 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. Encyc. Brit.
2. (Mus.)
Defn: See Rondo,1.
RONDEL
Ron"del, n. Etym: [Cf. Rondeau, Roundel.]
1. (Fort.)
Defn: A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.]
2. Etym: [F.] (a) Same as Rondeau. (b) 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. E. W. Gosse.
RONDELETIA
Ron`de*le"ti*a, n. Etym: [NL. So named after William Rondelet, a
French naturalist.] (Bot.)
Defn: A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.
RONDLE
Ron"dle, n. Etym: [Cf. Rondel.]