rondo

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Unadapted borrowing from Italian rondò, itself an unadapted borrowing of French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau; see there for further etymology.

Sonata, bravura, fantasia, rondo; a crash and whirl--rapid, swift, sweet, brilliant, cold; no feeling, no pathos. — The Diamond Coterie, Lawrence L. Lynch
As the Baron lay on the couch, trying to regain his vital spirits, Herr Carovius went to the piano and played the rondo from Weber’s sonata in A flat major. — The Goose Man, Jakob Wassermann
I must have a sou parisis, and the appointment is for seven o’clock.” “Silence for the rondo, and attention to the refrain,— “Quand les rats mangeront les cas, Le roi sera seigneur d’Arras; Quand la mer, qui est grande et lée Sera à la Saint-Jean gelée, On verra, par-dessus la glace, Sortir ceux d’Arras de leur place.”[43] “Well, scholar of Antichrist, may you be strangled with the entrails of your mother!” exclaimed Phœbus, and he gave the drunken scholar a rough push; the latter slipped against the wall, and slid flabbily to the pavement of Philip Augustus. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo

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