rondel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
    rondeau.

WordNet

Ron"del noun
Etymology
Cf. Rondeau, Roundel.
Definitions
  1. (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. Obs.
  2. 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.

Webster 1913