rouelle

See also: Rouelle

English

Borrowed from French rouelle.

rouelle (plural rouelles)

(countable, history) A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
(cooking) steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
(countable, history) A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.
Hypernyms: Jewish badge, yellow patch

Coordinate terms: Judenstern, yellow star
- 1870, John Henry Blunt, editor, Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology‎^[1], London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 378:
  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.

Inherited from Old French roïele, roel, rodele, from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”).

rouelle f (plural rouelles)

thin, round object or slice
steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
(countable, history) rouelle (a round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public)
- 1970, Maurice Druon, “« Je cite au tribunal de Dieu » ["I call to the tribunal of God"]” (chapter 8), in Le Roi de fer [The Iron King] (Les Rois maudits; volume 1), page 101:
  Quelques Juifs, serrés en groupes timides, la rouelle jaune sur leur manteau, étaient venus regarder ce supplice dont, pour une fois, ils ne faisaient pas les frais.
  Some Jews, huddled in timid little groups, the yellow rouelle on their coats, had come to watch this act of torment which, for once, was not being inflicted on them.