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
The probability is greater that I break the rouleau than that I melt the plate; but the increased probability is not calculable.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
He quietly slipped into his hand a little rouleau of ten pounds in gold.
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"Yes," replied Vanslyperken, who anticipated another rouleau of gold on his arrival at Amsterdam.
From Snarleyyow by Frederick Marryat
The wrapper of each rouleau was found to be signed by Mr. Martin, collector for the municipality as well as for the Samoan Government, and countersigned by Mr. Savile, his assistant.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Amongst the diamonds are those of the Señora L——, which are very fine, and there are gold rouleaus enough to set up a bank at San Agustin.
From Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca
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
The safe was open, and on the top shelf lay several rouleaus of gold, overlooked or disdained by the thieves.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
These two openings were barricaded on the inside by very heavy shutters, so that it was an easy matter to stack thousands and thousands of rouleaus of gold in the cellar before sending them away.
From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
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
Papers and several rouleaux of gold are ranged on a cabinet beside the bed.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
We cannot lose ten rouleaux of Louis every evening at ombre, and sleep soundly after; our valets do not drink Pomard at dinner, nor leave our service rich with two years of robbery.'
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
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