Noun: roulade
| Singular | roulade |
| Plural | roulades |
Sample Sentences
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He leaned back in his chair, and little more than the whites of his upturned eyes were visible; and beating time upon the table with one hand, claw-wise, and with two or three queer, little thrills and roulades, which re-appeared with great precision in each verse, he delivered himself thus, in what I suspect was an old psalm tune: […] [1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:]
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He heard only here and there the ecstatic burst of a mocking-bird's wonderful roulades. [1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 71:]
Nouns inflected like roulade
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French roulade, from rouler (“to roll”), from Old French roler. See: French Nouns '
roulade'.