rouleau

American  

[roo-loh] / ruˈloʊ /

noun

plural

rouleaux, rouleaus

1. a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.

2. a stack or roll of coins put up in cylindrical form in a paper wrapping.

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rouleau British  

/ ˈruːləʊ /

noun

1. a roll of paper containing coins

2. (often plural) a roll of ribbon

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Etymology

Origin of rouleau

1685–95; < French; Middle French rolel, diminutive of role roll

Example Sentences

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

It was le rouleau compresseur �the "steamroller" as Fignol�'s Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called �trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate.

From Time Magazine Archive

He quietly slipped into his hand a little rouleau of ten pounds in gold.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

I put the rouleau on my dressing-table, sat on my bed, and began to take off my boots.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"I remember now, it was a rouleau of fifty that I paid away to Layton was running in my head."

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James