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rouelle

rouelle noun: a wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.

rouelle: a wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun
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Noun

rouelle (plural rouelles)

  1. (countable) A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
  2. steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
  3. (countable) A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.
    • Louis IX. of France compelled every Jew, man, woman, and child, to wear a “rouelle,” or wheel of conspicuously-coloured stuff on the breast and back of the dress, that the Hebrew might be known at a distance.1870, John Henry Blunt, editor, Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology, London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 378

Forms of rouelle

pluralrouelles

Origin of rouelle

Borrowed from French rouelle.

Questions about rouelle

What does rouelle mean?
Rouelle means a wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
What part of speech is rouelle?
Rouelle is a noun.
What is the plural of rouelle?
The plural of rouelle is rouelles.

Words near rouelle in the dictionary

  1. Roudebush
  2. Roudebushes
  3. Roudham
  4. Roudham and Larling
  5. roue
  6. rouelle
  7. rouelles
  8. Rouen
  9. Rouens
  10. rouerie
  11. roues

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