Rouelle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rouelle is a noun meaning (countable, history) A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
Meaning
(countable, history) A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
More Meanings
- (cooking) steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
- (countable, history) A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- rouelles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rondel, rondelle, rouet, rotella, roundure, roundel.
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