roulade

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a dish consisting of a slice of meat that is rolled around a filling and cooked
noun (music) an elaborate run of several notes sung to one syllable

From French roulade, from rouler (“to roll”), from Old French roler.

But the roulades broke off suddenly, and then the servant came back saying that Mrs. Lydgate would be happy to see Mrs. Casaubon. — Middlemarch, George Eliot
Presently, he came to a dead halt, at the termination of a roulade in his song, and, in a wink, the lazo was over him. — Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver, Theodore Canot
It was sweeter by far than the machine-made trills and roulades of the artificial songster, and he felt instinctively that only by its return could death be charmed away. — Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know, Unknown

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