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Rondeau Common

Origin: French suffix -eau

Rondeau has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

2

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

3

A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.