roulettes

• present tense form

  present tense

  Used to describe things happening now or regularly.

  of roulette (3rd person singular).
  roulette

  noun

  a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the center a revolving, dishlike device roulettewheel into which a small ball is spun to come to rest finally in one of the 37 or 38 compartments, indicating the winning number and its characteristics, as odd or even, red or black, and between 1 and 18 or 19 and 36.

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roulettes

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

In these two illustrations are shown roulettes of large and small gauge.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

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 Alice Morse Earle

The cycloid is the simplest member of the class of curves known as roulettes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

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