rondure

ron·dure

 (rŏn′jər, -dyo͝or′)
n.
A circular or gracefully rounded object.

[French rondeur, roundness, from Old French, from ronde, round; see round1.]
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rondure

(ˈrɒndjʊə)
n
1. a circle or curve
2. roundness or curvature
[C17: from French rondeur, from rond round]
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But likewise I could lean heavily toward specificity: "look at the beautiful unfolding foliage of the birch's majestic rondure in the spring of a northern Washington sunset." And a reader goes, "Oh, that's lovely, but I have no idea what that experience is like." There is that tension of giving oneself over to the tautological, the abstract, versus giving oneself over to the concrete.
The almost palpable connection she felt to her subject matter can be sensed in the precision and details of such books as Long Island and Literature, and encouraged such comments as she offered after verifying a manuscript of "Thou Vast Rondure Swimming in Space," found in a Long Island basement in 1986: "I don't know how to say it," Joann told a Newsday reporter; "But it is overwhelming ...
"VIETRI continues to sell well for me, as well as Dansk Rice Rondure and Dansk Carribe.
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Near the beginning of The Ring and the Book, Robert Browning describes the triumphant product of Castellani's metallurgy: 'The rondure brave, the lilied loveliness, | Gold as it was, is, shall be evermore' (1.27-28).
The eyes, whose exact color none of his friends could later remember but whose flashing vivacity none of them ever forgot, are pressed shut while the surface of the skin over the taut rondure of the cheeks and the strangely emphatic mouth appears to breathe life in through every pore with what Keats himself once called "atoms of perception." The face is disturbingly beautiful; it is a face entirely lacking in those inexpressive tracts, those little fens of inertia, that often mark human features.
Charles perceives his marriage as the first moment of happiness in his life, and consequently reduces his world entirely to her: "the world, for him, was all contained within the silky rondure of her skirts" (32).
That this sort of indifference to the object world could produce forms reminiscent of Aztecan and Mayan civilization was Keister's thesis, his "interstitial archaeology." From the titles of his sculptures to the peculiar blend of linearity and rondure he gives his forms, Keister established an eerie resonance between our era and theirs.
If the characters are lost and helpless in what seems like a rondure of Sisyphus, the writer is in total empathy.
The company introduced its frame line at the spring tabletop market with Rondure, Origami, Tsunami and Tjorn.