rouleau
Americannoun
plural
rouleaux, rouleaus-
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
Etymology
Origin of rouleau
1685–95; < French; Middle French rolel, diminutive of role roll
Example Sentences
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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
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
There he goes, a yellow bird, a golden rouleau of song.
From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell
The manager immediately offered a rouleau of a thousand francs, which, in the heat of play, he thoughtlessly accepted, and also lost.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew
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 Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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