rondeau

noun

Definition of rondeaunext
as in madrigal

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Recent Examples of rondeau The Eater line is a partnership between Heritage and the food site that launched last year, but six new pieces were added this year, including a mini sauté pan ($120) and a roomy six-quart rondeau pan ($180) that’s perfect for searing, pan roasting, and simmering. — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024 The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau. — Molly Allen, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rondeau
  1. madrigal
  2. villanelle
  3. sonnet
  4. rondel
  5. ode
  6. psalm
  7. limerick
  8. poem
Noun
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
Definition of madrigal
Noun
  • Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.
    — Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Definition of villanelle
Noun
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    — Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of sonnet
Noun
  • But the showstoppers are the windows: high, arched, and set with leaded glass that includes rondels of colorful scenes (a white castle under attack by griffins, a golden lion wearing a tiny golden crown).
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Some store fronts are embellished with elaborate sculptures, like a rondel depicting a pair of women exchanging scandalous gossip.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 20 May 2022
Definition of rondel
Noun
  • Alongside the younger performers, Jacobson includes cameos from elder statesmen like the writer Richard Price, whose 2008 novel Lush Life was an ode to the Lower East Side, and Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Dune), who spends the whole movie on a bed watching reruns of Kung Fu.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Filmed through the prism of grief, documentary ‘Almudena’ is director Azucena Rodriguez’s ode to one of Spain’s renowned writers who was also a dear friend.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of ode
Noun
  • The Lady Olive certainly sank: All of its crew members escaped in lifeboats, singing psalms to stave off hypothermia, and were saved after 36 hours at sea.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    — Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
Definition of psalm
Noun
  • Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    — Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of limerick
Noun
  • These poems display a range of stances when encountering social extremes.
    — Alissa Quart, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Premiering on Thursday, March 27, Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn’s Treasure details the 10-year hunt to find treasure buried by 80-year-old Forrest Fenn in the Rocky Mountains — and the cryptic 24-line poem that was the key to finding the ultimate prize.
    — Abigail Adams, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of poem

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