roundo

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ROUND'O, noun 1. A sort of ancient poem, consisting of thirteen verses, of which eight are in one kind of rhyme and five in another. It is divided into couplets; at the end of the second and third of which, the beginning of the poem is repeated, and that, if possible, in an equivocal or punning sense. 2. A round form or figure. [Not used.]
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