Category: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.