rondelet

Middle French rondelet

rondelet (plural rondelets)

1. A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables

• rondel, rondelle
• roundel
• roundelay

• Del Norte, redolent

From rondel +‎ -et. Rondel has become rondeau in Modern French

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ̃d.lɛ/

rondelet (feminine singular rondelette, masculine plural rondelets, feminine plural rondelettes)

1. quite round; roundish
2. (by extension) large, hefty, significant

• “rondelet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

rondel +‎ -et

rondelet m (plural rondelez)

1. A roundelay, certain metric verse from