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Rolls-Royce

British  
/ ˌrəʊlzˈrɔɪs /

noun

  1. Also called (informal): Rolls.  a make of very high-quality, luxurious, and prestigious British car. The Rolls-Royce company is no longer British-owned

  2. anything considered to be the very best of its kind

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Etymology

Origin of Rolls-Royce

named after its designers, Charles Stewart Rolls (1877–1910), English pioneer motorist and aviator, and Sir (Frederick) Henry Royce (1863–1933), English engineer, who founded the Rolls-Royce Company (1906)

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She'll be travelling in a rolls royce, like this one, so that she arrives at Westminster Abbey in style.

From Children's BBC • Mar. 22, 2011

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