new words – rondelay

again from The Orchard Keeper, this is an alternate spelling of roundelay, which is a poem or song with a regularly recurring refrain. When it contains the words round, and delay, one can almost anticipate this meaning, especially given the context of the scene it was describing.

Here is the tail end of a long sentence:

“… the night went clamorous with hounds howling in rondelays, pained wailings as of phantom dogs lamenting their own demise.”