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rondure

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ron·dure  (rnjr, -dyr)
n.
A circular or gracefully rounded object.

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

rondure [ˈrɒndjʊə]
n Literary
1. a circle or curve
2. roundness or curvature
[from French rondeur, from rond round]


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The sky's clear rondure might display trinkets like us who hurry through time, preserving us like emblems set beyond grief.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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