rondure

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English

Etymology

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Borrowed from French rondeur (“roundness; round object”), from rond (“round”) + -eur (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: rond‧ure

Noun

rondure (countable and uncountable, plural rondures)

  1. (countable) A graceful curvature or round object; a ring; a sphere.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 21:
      ... all things rare
      That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
    • 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 318:
      O vast Rondure, swimming in space, / Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty, / Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness, [...]
  2. (uncountable) The quality of being round; roundness.

Translations

quality of being round — see roundness

References

  1. ^ “rondure, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, November 2010; “rondure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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