rouleau
Americannoun
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rouleaux,
plural
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rouleaus
plural
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a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.
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a stack or roll of coins put up in cylindrical form in a paper wrapping.
noun
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a roll of paper containing coins
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(often plural) a roll of ribbon
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Etymology
Origin of rouleau
1685–95; < French; Middle French rolel, diminutive of role roll
Vocabulary lists containing rouleau
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Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an agony of terror the young man dropped the rouleau, made a desperate effort to stir his limbs, uttered a great cry—and awoke.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
The fragment was followed by a rouleau of dark blue paper, which emitted a dull chink as it struck the ground.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
Then50 Had one of our folks done it, he would not Have been so poor a spirit as to hazard His neck for one rouleau, but have swooped all; Also the cabinet, if portable.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The recollection of the rouleau of gold, offered to the bailiffs by the young girl, occurred to Rodolph.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue
All these loans, I will hope, were accurately paid one day, as that from George II. was, in "rouleaus of new gold."
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle
About one-fifth of the case was parted off from the rest, in which were a very large number of gold ounces and rouleaus of guineas.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Joseph Holt Ingraham
He had bought a few centimes' worth, paying for it with numerous rouleaus, and he was beginning dimly to wonder if it was not rather an extravagant method of exchange.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird
The sleeves are ornamented with rouleaus, wreathed with pearls and bullion.
From Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
And again in his mind's eye he saw the rouleaus streaming from the sack.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
In wider vessels, erythrocytes may stack up much like a roll of coins, forming a rouleaux, from the French word for “roll.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The safe door is left open, and the visitor sees within the piles of bank-notes and the rouleaux of gold.
From The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton
One of the rouleaux was torn open, and a portion of its contents poured into the officer’s hand.
From Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn
He would require at least to clear himself of the affair of the rouleaux, or all would be against him.—I am.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Others of white or pink satin, edged with ruches of guipure lace, or rouleaux of marabouts.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
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