Rolls-Royce

/ (ˌrəʊlzˈrɔɪs) /

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noun trademark

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

anything considered to be the very best of its kind

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Word Origin for 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)

Words nearby Rolls-Royce

roll-on, roll-on/roll-off, rollout, rollover, roll-over arm, Rolls-Royce, roll the bones, roll top, roll-top desk, roll-up, roll up one's sleeves

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Example sentences from the Web for Rolls-Royce

I nod, and he rolls his eyes in the direction of the bathroom.
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Rolls Royce Motor Cars is a subsidiary of BMW, who make the engines.
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Roll Royce—you would expect nothing less from such a British archetype, right?
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The 1990s were a time when employment was high, and we could cut welfare rolls and push people into work.
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Both Royce and Engel called on the Obama administration to step up its provision of weapons to the Free Syrian Army.
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A tidal wave rolls landward, and twenty thousand human beings are drowned, or crushed to death.
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We rolled last week 140 tons of iron with it, and it will roll as fast with the both pair of rolls, as they can bring to it.'
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Most of the latter were empty, although two beside the door were covered with steaks and eggs and coffee and rolls.
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After it is cured they prepare it nicely in rolls and carots, the latter for manufacturing into snuff.
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Mr. Castle coughed, and Scattergood opened his eyes sleepily and peered over the rolls of fat that were his cheeks.
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