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Webster 1913 Edition
Roulade
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Rouˊlade′
,Noun.
[F.]
(Mus.)
A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel’s oratorios.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
roulade (plural roulades)
- (music) An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
- 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 2005, p. 71:
- A slice of meat that is rolled up, stuffed, and cooked.
Translations
An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable
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A slice of meat that is rolled up, stuffed, and cooked
Verb
roulade (third-person singular simple present roulades, present participle roulading, simple past and past participle rouladed)
- To sing an elaborate embellishment of several notes to one syllable.
Danish
Noun
roulade c (definite singular rouladen, indefinite plural roulader, definite plural rouladerne)
- Swiss roll (UK), jelly roll, jellyroll (US) (a cylindrical, rolled-up cake with a sweet filling)