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

  • Sutherland as Queen Semiramide was her usual dazzling self, but Horne matched her roulade for roulade, trill for trill, most enchantingly in the final act in which the two .
  • People, apparently, would rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon.
  • Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade.
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  • Best New Local Restaurant (2013)
    Best New Local Restaurant winner Bluebeard offers an impressive variety of locally-sourced dishes, including a rabbit loin roulade and all manner of yeast-based goods baked up at its neighbor Amelia's Bakery. Its name derived from a Vonnegut novel, Bluebeard is bedecked with antique typewriters, including one that is reputed to be a replica of the machine Vonnegut used to write his book. But the ...
    July 24, 2013 - Nuvo

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