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
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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
  • Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.
    Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?
    Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
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
  • The aircraft was an ode to Chuck Yeager, a longtime Grass Valley resident and World War II fighter pilot known for being the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947.
    Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
  • This song is an emotional ode to the healing powers of liquor to mask the pain of relationship drama — in other words, a timeless feel.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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
  • The Songs of the Jabberwock – as the book is called when seen in reflection – includes one of the most famous nonsense poems of all time.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Following the critical and commercial success of Oppenheimer, Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan is set to adapt Homer's epic poem The Odyssey into a feature film.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024

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“Rondeau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rondeau. Accessed 11 Jan. 2025.

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