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Webster 1913 Edition


Roulade


Rouˊlade′

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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


Roulade

Roulade

See also: roulade

German

Noun

Roulade f (genitive Roulade, plural Rouladen)

  1. roulade

roulade

roulade

See also: Roulade

English

Noun

roulade (plural roulades)

  1. (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.
  2. A slice of meat that is rolled up, stuffed, and cooked.

Translations

Verb

roulade (third-person singular simple present roulades, present participle roulading, simple past and past participle rouladed)

  1. To sing an elaborate embellishment of several notes to one syllable.

Danish

Noun

roulade c (definite singular rouladen, indefinite plural roulader, definite plural rouladerne)

  1. Swiss roll (UK), jelly roll, jellyroll (US) (a cylindrical, rolled-up cake with a sweet filling)

French

Noun

roulade f (plural roulades)

  1. roll, roly-poly (act of rolling forward or sidewards)
  2. roulade (dish)
  3. (music) roulade