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/ɹuːˈlɑːd/ · noun
(music) An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable..
He leaned back in his chair, and little more than the whites of his upturned eyes were visible; and beating time upon the table with one hand, claw-wise, and with two or three queer, little thrills and roulades, which re-appeared with great precision in each verse, he delivered himself thus, in what I suspect was an old psalm tune: […]
He heard only here and there the ecstatic burst of a mocking-bird's wonderful roulades.
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Roulade means (music) An elaborate embellishment of several notes sung to one syllable..
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He leaned back in his chair, and little more than the whites of his upturned eyes were visible; and beating time upon the table with one hand, claw-wise, and with two or three queer, little thrills and roulades, which re-appeared with great precision in each verse, he delivered himself thus, in what I suspect was an old psalm tune: […]
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