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
  • This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
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 song is a tender ode to a loved one in her life, presumably a lover like her partner Don Toliver, though her love has also been overflowing for her baby son over the past year.
    Chris Malone Mendez, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • This is a cool ode to Khan, who has gone viral in recent weeks on social media.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Then, using his talents playing the lyre and singing psalms, David grew to be a supportive comfort to the possibly mad King Saul (Ali Suliman) as well as begin a romance with Saul’s daughter, Michal (Indy Lewis).
    Jim Halterman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The Lady Olive certainly sank: All of its crew members escaped in lifeboats, singing psalms to stave off hypothermia, and were saved after 36 hours at sea.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
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 20-minute work is vivid stuff, inspired by a Czech poem about a woman who tries and fails to get on with her life after murdering her husband.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The film is an adaptation of Homer's epic poem of the same name, which was written in the 8th or 7th century BC and is considered one of the greatest works of Western literature, along with Homer's other epic poem, The Iliad.
    Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025

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

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