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[n] a charge in the shape of a circle; a hollow roundel [n] round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit [n] English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
Variation on the rondeau devised by A.C.Swinburne. It is an eleven line poem where the first part of the first line is repeated as a refrain in the fourth and eleventh lines.
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armor plate, armor plating, armorial bearing, armour plate, bearing, body armor, body armour, cataphract, charge, coat of mail, heraldic bearing, plate armor, plate armour, rondeau, rondel, suit of armor, suit of armour
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[n] a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain
Short, simple song with a refrain.
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