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rouelles

rouelles is the plural of rouelle.

Meaning of rouelle

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

Questions about rouelles

What is rouelles the plural of?
Rouelles is the plural of rouelle.

Words near rouelles in the dictionary

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

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