Definitions for roue

roue rou·é

Spelling: [roo-ey, roo-ey]
IPA: /ruˈeɪ, ˈru eɪ/

Roue is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in roue (eoru).

Definitions for roue

noun

  1. a dissolute and licentious man; rake.

Origin of roue

1790-1800; French, noun use of past participle of rouer to break on the wheel (derivative of roue wheel ≪ Latin rota); name first applied to the profligate companions of the Duc d'Orléans (c1

Examples for roue

He had been a roue in his youth, but seemed now the perfect representative of a benignant and virtuous old age.

"Not back to the home I left for the sake of a gambler and roue," she said, bitterly.

I was not prepared to find you grown from a roue into a senator.

He bade fair to be utterly used up and a roue, in a few years, if he were to continue at the pace at which he was going.

Mark me, doctor, Dorothy will not put up an instant with a roue and a brute.

The face that might have been handsome was the reflection of a roue, dashing, devilish.

Later the deserted admirer became again a roue inflamed with wine and submitted to a close-up that would depict his baffled rage.

How could it be other than a terrible thought for her that her daughter listened willingly to this roue?

When with the gambler, or the roue, he was equally at home—a debauchee, or a handler of cards.

Vice does not form with them, as with the English roue, an occasional excess, but is consistent and regular in its habits.

Word Value for roue
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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