Definitions for roulade

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roulade rou·lade

Spelling: [roo-lahd]

IPA: /ruˈlɑd/

Roulade is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in roulade (adeloru).

Definitions for roulade

noun

1. a musical embellishment consisting of a rapid succession of tones sung to a single syllable.
2. a slice of meat rolled around a filling of minced meat and cooked.

Origin of roulade

1700-10; French: a rolling, equivalent to roul(er) to roll + -ade -ade¹

Examples for roulade

On another, she was coyly turning her head as she finished a roulade, and seemed to be listening to herself.

In every school of singing the roulade is effected by means of the staccato and legato.

But there is a specific note of individuality, a roulade quite Anatolian in the Frenchman's writings.

The inspector rose and approached the door through which Clementi's roulade was heard.

With a roulade the brindisi had ceased and the singer as though pleased, not with herself but with the audience, bowed.