Roulers

American  

[roo-lairs, roo-ler] / ruˈlɛərs, ruˈlɛr /

noun

1. a city in NW Belgium: battles 1914, 1918.

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Roulers British  

/ ruːˈlɛəz, rulɛrs /

noun

1. Flemish name: Roeselare.  a city in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: electronics. Pop: 55 273 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

As we approached Roulers, we found the town alive with people who had assembled to welcome that which they regarded as an army of deliverance from the dreaded Germans.

From With The Immortal Seventh Division by Kennedy, Edmund John

The Royal Irish Rifles worked up the Roulers railway to the level crossing, and captured two German officers and thirty prisoners.

From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip

One flotilla bombarded the railroad between Ypres and Roulers, near Passchendaele, tearing up the track for several hundred yards.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

We left Roulers for Ypres," he says, "at 9.30 a.m.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by Parrott, James Edward

We were marched to Roulers, which we reached well after dark.

From The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland by Pearson, George