rouleau
noun
a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.
rouleaus
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pluralof rouleau.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I recollect looking attentively at the manner in which he played; he would put his right hand into his pocket, and bring out several rouleaus of Napoleons, and throw them on the red or black.
From Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow
Behind, some golden rouleaus were intact: others tottered precariously, as you have perhaps seen beautiful tall stacks of colored counters do.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Indeed, the play was unusually high—for rouleaus of L50 each, and generally there was L10,000 in specie on the table.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
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
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
