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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ron·del /ˈrɑndḷ, rɑnˈdɛl/
 十四行的短詩

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ron·del n.
 1. Fort. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [Obs.]
 2.  (a) Same as Rondeau. (b) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rondel
      n : a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes;
          the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the
          second and third stanzas [syn: rondeau]