What is another word for rouleau?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈuːlə͡ʊ] (IPA)

Rouleau is a French word that means a small roll or cylinder. There are several synonyms for this word, such as roll, coil, tube, quill, and scroll. These words are commonly used to describe objects that are cylindrical or rolled up. For instance, a roll of tape, a coil of wire, a tube of toothpaste, a quill pen, or a scroll of parchment. Each of these words describes a different type of rouleau, but all suggest something that is tightly rolled or coiled. Whether in art, mechanics, or cuisine, these synonyms enrich our language by providing us with new ways to describe the world around us.

What are the hypernyms for Rouleau?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    cylinder, roll, tube, vertical blind, roll of fabric, roll of paper.

What are the hyponyms for Rouleau?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for rouleau (as nouns)

Usage examples for Rouleau

Upon this they carried him to a small chamber in the hold and tossed him down among a heap of groaning wounded, upon a cable made up into a rouleau, perhaps the hardest bed on which a sick man can lie.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In the meantime the King played on, taking no notice of anyone, his beaked nose dropping lower towards his chin as he lost one rouleau after another to Bassompierre.
"The Chevalier d'Auriac"
S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
So saying, I slipped into her hand a rouleau, it being the fifty louis I owed her.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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