Definitions for roulades

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roulades rou·lade

Spelling: [roo-lahd]

IPA: /ruˈlɑd/

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

You can make 447 anagrams from letters in roulades (adelorsu).

Definitions for roulades

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 roulades

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

Examples for roulades

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

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.

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