rou·lade

[roo-lahd]
noun
1.
a musical embellishment consisting of a rapid succession of tones sung to a single syllable.
2.
a slice of meat rolled around a filling of minced meat and cooked.

Origin:
1700–10; < French: a rolling, equivalent to roul(er) to roll + -ade -ade1

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roulade (ruːˈlɑːd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  a slice of meat rolled, esp around a stuffing, and cooked
2.  an elaborate run in vocal music
 
[C18: from French, literally: a rolling, from rouler to roll]

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Roulade is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Example sentences
Options for main dishes include eggplant roulade, beef sirloin and bouillabaisse.
Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade.
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