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Rolls-Royce

/ ˌrəʊlzˈrɔɪs /

noun

  1. Also called (informal)Rolls a make of very high-quality, luxurious, and prestigious British car. The Rolls-Royce company is no longer British-owned
  2. anything considered to be the very best of its kind


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Rolls-Royce1

named after its designers, Charles Stewart Rolls (1877–1910), English pioneer motorist and aviator, and Sir (Frederick) Henry Royce (1863–1933), English engineer, who founded the Rolls-Royce Company (1906)

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Example Sentences

Rolls Royce Motor Cars is a subsidiary of BMW, who make the engines.

He claimed that his work as Genie was a favor to company, which he considered the “Rolls-Royce of animation.”

However in that case the fault was in the Rolls Royce engines, not the airplane, and was promptly fixed.

And when it comes to liability litigation, as inevitably it will, Rolls Royce would seem to be off the hook.

On the 777 the electrical power for all of its mechanical and life support systems is drawn from its two Rolls Royce engines.

As a result no American-built Rolls-Royce engine was ever made.

There stood a handsome Rolls-Royce, the facsimile of the one from which we had just alighted.

This is altogether too much for the owner of the Rolls-Royce.

Thumbwood appeared, I gave him full instructions, and heard the Rolls-Royce start below.

Karslake doubled nimbly across the street to the only vehicle in sight, an impressive Rolls-Royce town-car.

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