rondure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French rondeur (“roundness; round object”), from rond (“round”) + -eur (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒndjʊə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹɑnˌd(j)ʊɹ/
- Hyphenation: rond‧ure
Noun
rondure (countable and uncountable, plural rondures)
- (countable) A graceful curvature or round object; a ring; a sphere.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 21”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- […] 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, [...]
- (uncountable) The quality of being round; roundness.
Translations
graceful curvature or round object
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quality of being round — see roundness
References
- ^ “rondure, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, November 2010; “rondure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.