Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Music An embellishment consisting of a rapid run of several notes sung to one syllable.
- noun A slice of meat rolled around a filling and cooked.
- noun Any of various other dishes in which a flexible base layer is rolled up together with a soft filling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In vocal music, a melodic embellishment consisting in a rapid succession of tones sung to a single syllable; a run.
- noun Slices of beef rolled with bacon and then steamed.
- In music, to sing roulades or divisions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music An elaborate
embellishment of severalnotes sung to onesyllable . - noun A
slice ofmeat that is rolled up, stuffed, and cooked.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable
- noun a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The outer shell of this roulade is made from a soft meringue made with 10 egg whites.
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The one drawback to a meringue roulade is that the meringue part is very sweet (this is a drawback to a lot of meringue cookies, actually), so you can’t just put any old filling inside.
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Libby's pumpkin roulade aka roll is a great alternative to traditional pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin roulade( roll)..... Randi 2008
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Libby's pumpkin roulade aka roll is a great alternative to traditional pumpkin pie.
Archive 2008-09-01 Randi 2008
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The sopranos, too, have a way, when about to emit a roulade, that is more suggestive of a dentist’s chair, and the attendant gargle, than of a love phrase.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 1884
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Vince Burnet made a desperate effort to get free, but the combination of his assailant's knees and the jersey effectively imprisoned him, and, though he heaved and tossed and jerked himself, he could not dislodge the lad, who clung to him like Sinbad's old man of the sea, till he fell half exhausted in a thick bed of heather, where he was kept down to suffer a kind of roulade of thumps, delivered very heartily upon his back as if it were a drum.
Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days George Manville Fenn 1870
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The chocolate and orange mousse with a brash tangerine sorbet had the virtue of not being cloyingly oversweetened; a soft meringue and chocolate roulade had the virtue of looking like the sort of thing you might actually want to buy from the freezer cabinet at Iceland but wouldn't dream of purchasing for fear of being spotted by the neighbours.
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Popular dishes include poussin roulade with cauliflower, chanterelles and P é rigord truffles ($24), and shrimp simmered in spices with a string hoppers — a noodle dish, with korma sauce and black mustard ($26), says Rahul Nair , the hotel's director of food and beverage.
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Does it mean something if you serve the halibut instead of the chicken roulade?
The 8 Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You) 2011
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Feeling a little sorry for this Turk, I helped him out by submitting an optional caption for my next meal of rabbit roulade with cheese-stuffed squash blossom.
A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Calories Kathleen Squires 2011
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