roulette

Posting in r/Knitting can be like a game of Russian roulette.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

Others, even more cynically, play a form of Russian roulette with their clients’ money.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I just felt like I had better luck at the roulette table with prediction markets versus crypto,” said Cathy Mallebranche, a 36-year-old trader and fashion stylist in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Maybe you can fix the whole mess by pressing the right buttons on your remote, but with four to choose from, that’s a game of roulette you’re sure to lose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

So perhaps an astronaut who fell into a black hole would be able to make money at roulette by remembering where the ball went before he placed his bet.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Flicks and tricks and roulettes and rondo after , all soft-shoed and swift.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2013

If America has a Victor Hugo, it is Amy Bloom, whose picaresque novels roam the world, plumb the human heart and send characters into wild roulettes of kismet and calamity.

From Washington Post

Gentlemen are sitting baldheaded in elegant dressing-gowns, while their wigs are being taken out of roulettes.

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

In these two illustrations are shown roulettes of large and small gauge.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

The roulettes could be put in buckle hot, or they could be rolled cold and the whole wig heated.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

Stamps thus rouletted have a very ragged edge when torn apart.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

There is still another form of rouletting, which we also show you.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

Here is an example of this rouletting, in a small gauge.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

There is another form of separation called rouletting, from the French "roulette", a little wheel, its simplest form being produced by a small wheel with an edge of sharp points.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

It is called rouletting in 63oblique parallel cuts and consists of a row of short cuts placed obliquely and parallel to each other.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by John N. Luff

Between 1848 and 1854 Archer tried many systems for separating stamps, and, in the latter year, perfected a machine for perforating instead of rouletting the margins of adhesives.

From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson