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Recent Examples of rondel
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).
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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, 20 May 2022
Testifying to flexible convictions, the Morgan show includes a rondel painting by Holbein, circa 1532, of Erasmus’s thin-faced, pointy-nosed mien, and also a small portrayal, circa 1535, of Luther’s most efficacious disciple, Philipp Melanchthon.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Crown of Emara features a meaty double rondel that sprawls across two central boards.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2018
In addition to the pistol dog, the dig team also found pieces of Spanish armor and a rondel dagger, popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
The team has also found Spanish armor parts and other artifacts, including a rondel dagger popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages, at the site.
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
The Asian rondel is a coffee table top that originally belonged to Jen’s grandmother but had become too fragile to stand on its own.
—Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 3 May 2017
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, 20 May 2022
Testifying to flexible convictions, the Morgan show includes a rondel painting by Holbein, circa 1532, of Erasmus’s thin-faced, pointy-nosed mien, and also a small portrayal, circa 1535, of Luther’s most efficacious disciple, Philipp Melanchthon.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Crown of Emara features a meaty double rondel that sprawls across two central boards.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2018
In addition to the pistol dog, the dig team also found pieces of Spanish armor and a rondel dagger, popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
The team has also found Spanish armor parts and other artifacts, including a rondel dagger popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages, at the site.
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
The Asian rondel is a coffee table top that originally belonged to Jen’s grandmother but had become too fragile to stand on its own.
—Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 3 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rondel
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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
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The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau.Molly Allen, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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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
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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
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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
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And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
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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
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Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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All kinds of essays, narratives, stories, encyclopedias, poems, and the like are scrutinized in a mathematical and computational fashion to ferret out the nature of human writing.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Harbaugh went on for two straight minutes, reciting the poem from memory.Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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The aircraft was an ode to Chuck Yeager, a longtime Grass Valley resident and World War II fighter pilot known for being the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947.Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
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This song is an emotional ode to the healing powers of liquor to mask the pain of relationship drama — in other words, a timeless feel.Heran Mamo, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Rondel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rondel. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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