释义 |
ronduren. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rondeur. Etymology: < French rondeur roundness (1388 in Middle French), round object (1810) < rond round adj. + -eur -ure suffix1. Compare Middle French reondure roundness (a1390 in an apparently isolated attestation), variant of rondeur (see above). Compare slightly earlier roundure n., earlier rotundity n., roundness n., and later rondeur n. the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > a circle, ring, or sphere 1609 W. Shakespeare xxi. sig. C All things rare, That heauens ayre in this huge rondure hems. View more context for this quotation 1789 J. P. Kemble iii. i. 23 Beat in the rondure of their rampar'd walls, Or tear the lions out of England's coat.1868 R. Browning I. i. 2 The rondure brave, the lilied loveliness.1874 J. A. Symonds (1898) I. xi. 213 Cherubs clustered in the rondure of rose-windows.1926 W. Frank i. iii. 75 Rondures of breast and stomach press the lashed silk.1953 I. Brody xxviii. 284 The rondure, or the pear shape, of the perfect pearl.1991 N. Rush ii. 102 There was some rondure, but nothing undue at his age or out of reach of the lash of diet and situps.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1609 |