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‖ roˈtonda Now rare.
[It., fem. of rotondo round. Hence also F. rotonde.]
1. spec. The Pantheon. Cf. rotunda 1 b.
1670R. Lassels Voy. Ital. ii. 235 From hence I went to the Rotonda otherwise called anciently, the Pantheon. a1747Holdsworth Remarks Virgil (1748) 218 The doors to the Rotonda at Rome. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 464 Behind the Pantheon or Rotonda are to be seen the ruins of those [baths] of Marcus Agrippa.
2. A round or circular object.
1711Addison Spect. No. 127 ⁋9 When I survey this new-fashioned Rotonda [the hoop-petticoat] in all its Parts.
3. = rotundo 3.
1874M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble i. iv. (1878) 39 In the rotonda, a species of ante-room generally attached to the bed-carriages. |