roulette

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

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

"He was playing, in effect, a game of ballistic roulette," prosecutor Chad Grunander said.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

“The headline roulette is reaching the point where it is becoming exhausting for oil traders,” said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

He had one pair of cufflinks upstairs which were little roulette wheels that really worked.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

Before the players were aware of it, the construction of the roulettes was amended.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

The cycloid is the simplest member of the class of curves known as roulettes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

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 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

There are a number of systems which produce the effect of rouletting in a variety of fancy forms.

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 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

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