rondure

English

Etymology

French rondeur

Noun

rondure (plural rondures)

  1. A graceful round object, or a graceful curvature.
  2. A ring or sphere.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 21:
      ... all things rare
      That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
    • 1881–82, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "Passage to India":
      O vast Rondure, swimming in space,
      Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty,
      Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness ...

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