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Meaning of rouelle | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
    countable
  2. steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
  3. A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.
    countable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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