Definition of "roundelay" [round•e•lay]

• A poem or song with a regularly recurring refrain. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It's the usual roundelay of friction and fun, though not terribly sparkling."
• "The magazine talks about hard work, but life in the country looks like an endless roundelay of making livestock look cute, cooking entrees that use four ingredients and serve eight, and taking gorgeous landscape photographs suitable for jigsaw puzzles."
• "This predictable roundelay is repeated so many times that I feel as though I could just fill in the words and dance the steps for each side and be done with it."