roulade

See also: Roulade

English

Etymology

From French roulade, from rouler (“to roll”), from Old French roler.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈlɑːd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Noun

roulade (plural roulades)

1. (music) An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     He leaned back in his chair, and little more than the whites of his upturned eyes were visible; and beating time upon the table with one hand, claw-wise, and with two or three queer, little thrills and roulades, which re-appeared with great precision in each verse, he delivered himself thus, in what I suspect was an old psalm tune: […]

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 71:

     He heard only here and there the ecstatic burst of a mocking-bird's wonderful roulades.

2. (cooking) A slice of meat that is rolled up, stuffed, and cooked.

Translations

An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable

• Russian: рула́да (ru) f (ruláda)

A slice of meat that is rolled up, stuffed, and cooked

• Armenian: ռուլետ (hy) (ṙulet)
• Catalan: polpeta f
• Dutch: rollade (nl) c
• German: Roulade (de) f
• Indonesian: rolade
• Italian: involtino (it)
• Lithuanian: suktinukas
• Polish: rolada (pl) f
• Russian: руле́т (ru) m (rulét)
• Spanish: arrollado (es)

Verb

roulade (third-person singular simple present roulades, present participle roulading, simple past and past participle rouladed)

1. To sing an elaborate embellishment of several notes to one syllable.

Danish

Etymology

From French roulade.

Noun

roulade c (definite singular rouladen, indefinite plural roulader, definite plural rouladerne)

1. Swiss roll (UK), jelly roll, jellyroll (US) (a cylindrical, rolled-up cake with a sweet filling)

Further reading

• “roulade” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From rouler +‎ -ade.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

roulade f (plural roulades)

1. roll, roly-poly (act of rolling forward or sidewards)
2. roulade (dish)
3. (music) roulade

Descendants

• → Danish: roulade
• → English: roulade
• → German: Roulade
• → Polish: rolada

Further reading

• “roulade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.