rondure

rondure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French rondeur (“roundness; round object”), from rond (“round”) + -eur (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒndjʊə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑnˌd(j)ʊɹ/
• Hyphenation: rond‧ure

Noun

rondure (countable and uncountable, plural rondures)

1. (countable) A graceful curvature or round object; a ring; a sphere.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 21”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     […] all things rare
     That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.

   • 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, OCLC 1514723, stanza 5, page 318:

     O vast Rondure, swimming in space, / Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty, / Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness, [...]

2. (uncountable) The quality of being round; roundness.

Translations

graceful curvature or round object

Bulgarian: закръгленост f (zakrǎglenost)

quality of being round — see roundness

References

1. “rondure, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, November 2010; “rondure”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Rednour, rounder, unorder