roué

“Le Dieu gaulois du Soleil et le symbolisme de la roue,” Paris, 1886.

A shameless old roue makes love to you, and he writes you a stack of silly letters.

When with the gambler, or the roue, he was equally at home—a debauchee, or a handler of cards.

"Boys," he exclaimed, "'tis a hind wheel" (une roue de derrire—the slang word for a silver dollar).

Where the Grande Roue turns, on the ground now bright with flower-beds and grassy lawns, duels were fought erewhile.