roulette
roulette
noun roo-LET Rare
Origin: French 'roue' (wheel) + diminutive '-ette'
Also means
small wheel
Usage Note
Roulette literally means 'little wheel' and covers the casino game, a small rolling caster (as on furniture), a dentist's drill wheel, and a pastry-cutting wheel. The phrase jouer à la roulette russe (to play Russian roulette) is a fixed idiom for extreme risk-taking. The object sense (furniture castor) is written une roulette and is common in everyday speech.
Examples
"Il a tout misé au jeu de roulette."
Natural Translation
He bet everything on roulette.
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