rondel

variants or rondelle

Examples Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of rondel 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, 20 May 2022 Testifying to flexible convictions, the Morgan show includes a rondel painting by Holbein, circa 1532, of Erasmus’s thin-faced, pointy-nosed mien, and also a small portrayal, circa 1535, of Luther’s most efficacious disciple, Philipp Melanchthon. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022 Crown of Emara features a meaty double rondel that sprawls across two central boards. Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2018 In addition to the pistol dog, the dig team also found pieces of Spanish armor and a rondel dagger, popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages. Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018 The team has also found Spanish armor parts and other artifacts, including a rondel dagger popular in Europe in the late Middle Ages, at the site. Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018 The Asian rondel is a coffee table top that originally belonged to Jen’s grandmother but had become too fragile to stand on its own. Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 3 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rondel
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
  • People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
  • According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
    David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • As the Cure’s front man and primary songwriter, Smith’s never been shy about drawing blatant lyrical inspiration from his favorite books and poems.
    Chris Stanton, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Co-written with The Office executive producer Ben Silverman, The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin is described as a comedic retelling of the classic poem, featuring a visit from Steve Carell’s Michael Scott as Santa and narrated by Baumgartner’s Kevin Malone.
    Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Noun
  • Fittingly, his outfit was an ode to a jab from one of his wife's costars.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.
    James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024

Thesaurus Entries Near rondel

Cite this Entry

“Rondel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rondel. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

More from Merriam-Webster on rondel

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!