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1. A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.

2. The verse form rondeau.

3. A rondelle, (small) circular object.

4. A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).