roulettes
- present tense form of roulette (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Flicks and tricks and roulettes and rondo after , all soft-shoed and swift.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2013
If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.
From Washington Post
Before the players were aware of it, the construction of the roulettes was amended.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
Gentlemen are sitting baldheaded in elegant dressing-gowns, while their wigs are being taken out of roulettes.
From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
The roulettes could be put in buckle hot, or they could be rolled cold and the whole wig heated.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse
