roulade

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹuːˈlɑːd/

roulade (plural roulades)

1. (music) An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     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: […]

   • 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.

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.

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)

roulade f (plural roulades)

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