rondeau

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Recent Examples of rondeau 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 The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau. Molly Allen, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rondeau
Noun
  • This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The title is borrowed from Elizabeth Alexander’s fourth collection persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica which examines the Black experience through the lens of the slave rebellion on the Amistad and nineteenth-century American art.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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).
    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, New York Times, 20 May 2022
Noun
  • It’s not known if the 11 parents who applied to call their child King meant it as an ode to Charles, but all were asked to have a rethink, according to Crawford-Smith.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
  • Marina’s Tapas, which opened in early December 2024, is an ode to Kaifer’s Spanish great-grandmother.
    Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Fronted by the Swiss Guard, cardinals and other church leaders led the slow procession into the sunlit esplanade as a male choir chanted psalms and prayers in Latin and the great bells of the basilica tolled.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • That’s right, your last poem talks about replanting trees to help restore Tuolumne Camp.
    Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
  • The poems suggest the porpoise’s range has decreased by 65 percent since the Tang dynasty (618–907 C.E.).
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2025

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“Rondeau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rondeau. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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