Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ruff of the kind worn during the early years of the seventeenth century by both men and women. Compare
ruff , 1. - noun A cope, the ecclesiastical garment especially so called when considered as an object of decorative art.
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Examples
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The cheapest place of all, however, is in the rotonde, which is the omnibus-like compartment, in the end of the diligence, behind.
Rollo in Switzerland Jacob Abbott 1841
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The passengers in "coupé," "rotonde," and "interieure" popped out their heads, the passengers on the "banquette" stared, until at last, just as the postillions were dismounting to reconnoitre, twelve figures rose up from behind the barricade, indistinct in the gloom, and bringing their rifles to their shoulders took aim.
The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX James De Mille
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GF courted me at one of these rotonde, making me feel like a real woman, much older and more sophisticated than my friends, and not the teenager I was.
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GF courted me at one of these rotonde, making me feel like a real woman, much older and more sophisticated than my friends, and not the teenager I was.
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The coach, to which were harnessed four iron-gray horses that would have done honor to the Messageries-royales, was divided into three compartments, coupe, interieur, and rotonde, with an imperiale above.
A Start in Life 2007
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Mrs. B. was arrayed in a superb speckled foulard, with the stripes running fore and aft, and with collets and camails to match; also, a rotonde of Chantilly lace, embroidered with blue and yellow dogs, and birds and things, done in cruel…
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Mrs. B. was arrayed in a superb speckled foulard, with the stripes running fore and aft, and with collets and camails to match; also, a rotonde of Chantilly lace, embroidered with blue and yellow dogs, and birds and things, done in cruel…
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Just before supper, which was served at little round tables in a room opening out of the rotonde, the late King of Denmark, then Crown Prince, brother of the Princess of Wales, told me he would like to go up-stairs and see all the rooms; he had always heard that the Palais d'Orsay was a beautiful house.
My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914
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I entered the rotonde, in which I happened to be the only passenger, and the coach, lightly laden as it was, soon set off at full gallop.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858
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Consequently, I hired from a builder of public conveyances, for two hundred francs a month, a diligence which had formerly been used in the environs of Paris; it was composed of a coupé and a vast rotonde, over which was an impériale for the luggage.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858
hernesheir commented on the word rotonde
Why not "ruff it" and wear a rotonde?
November 18, 2010