Category:Roundelay

Round"e*lay, n. Etym: [of. rondelet, dim. of rondel. See roundel, Roundeau, and cf. Roundlet, rundlet.]

1. (poetry)

Defn: see rondeau, and rondel.

2. (mus.) (a) a tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural Strain which is short and lively. Spenser. Tennyson. (b) a dance in a circle.

3. Anything having a round form; a roundel.