Definitions for roquelaure

roquelaure roq·ue·laure

Spelling: [rok-uh-lawr, -lohr, roh-kuh-; Roquelaure is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in roquelaure (aeeloqrruu).

Definitions for roquelaure

noun

  1. a cloak reaching to the knees, worn by men during the 18th century.

Origin of roquelaure

First recorded in 1710-20; named after the Duc de Roquelaure (1656-1738), French marshal

Examples for roquelaure

Remember that roquelaure joyously threw himself on the neck of a man who seemed to him even uglier than himself.

To root out a roquelaure, a Triboulet, or a Brummel, is almost impossible.

"It is this," I answered, producing a trowel from beneath the folds of my roquelaure.

He used to wear a roquelaure, beneath which appeared a pair of thin legs encased in dirty silk stockings.

The man did so; I went out and purchased a roquelaure, which enveloped my whole person.

He stood at the door when I opened, wrapped over the chin in a muffler of multitudinous folds, and covered by a roquelaure.

So saying, I threw off my roquelaure, and desired him to proceed.

Putting on a mask of black silk, and drawing a roquelaure closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.

That roquelaure became mine by what you might call impressment, and thereby hangs a tale which you shall hear anon.

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