rouleau

American  

[roo-loh] / ruˈloʊ /

noun

plural

rouleaux, rouleaus

1. a roll or strip of something, as trimming on a hat brim.

2. a stack or roll of coins put up in cylindrical form in a paper wrapping.

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rouleau British  

/ ˈruːləʊ /

noun

1. a roll of paper containing coins

2. (often plural) a roll of ribbon

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Etymology

Origin of rouleau

1685–95; < French; Middle French rolel, diminutive of role roll

Example Sentences

It was le rouleau compresseur �the "steamroller" as Fignol�'s Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called �trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smoothly maneuvering what he called his rouleau compresseur, a human steam roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency.

From Time Magazine Archive

I put the rouleau on my dressing-table, sat on my bed, and began to take off my boots.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The rouleau contained a hundred good farthings, for each of which he had paid two pence half-penny.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

If I continue to sit here now, it is because that old fellow yonder has got a rouleau in his pocket which he cannot persuade himself to break.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James