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roland
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The Roland is a Franco - German mobile short-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. The Roland was also purchased by the U.S. Army as one of very few foreign SAM systems. Roland was designed to a joint French and German requirement for a low-level mobile ...
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Population (2000): 2842 Housing Units (2000): 1132 Land area (2000): 2.642287 sq. miles (6.843492 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.017738 sq. miles (0.045942 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.660025 sq. miles (6.889434 sq. km) FIPS code: 63800 Located within: Oklahoma ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, from French, from Old High German Hrodland , literally "(having a) famous land." As legendary nephew of Charlemagne, celebrated in "Chanson de Roland," c.1300. His comrade was Oliver , hence a Roland for an Oliver (1610s) in expressions ...
Usage examples of roland.
He had an appointment with Roland Dockery, who was the person in the Amtrak bureaucracy stuck with handling such nondescript problems as Leaphorn represented.
She waited to see what Roland wanted her to do, remembering that she was masquerading as a cabin boy if the buccaneers would buy that.
On the whole he found the question of the Princess troublesome, but seeing her with Roland made him forget his internal conflicts over her, as a less intellectual, more basic emotion came to the fore.
As soon as Roland and Elvira had left Cranford Hall, she had phoned Sandra in panic.
Voltaire and Madame Denis threw their arms round my neck, but their embraces could not stop me, for Roland, to become mad, had to notice that he was in the same bed in which Angelica had lately been found in the arms of the too fortunate Medor, and I had to reach the next stanza.
They had rediscovered much of their former playful fun in them, and Roland held the guarded hope her feelings for him might be developing into something more than friendship.
Beside him, Roland had built up the fire and was rummaging in their combined gunna for the little earthen potan artifact of the Old Peoplein which he liked to brew tea.
The hero had so overacted his part it had been embarrassing, and Roland acting the master of the house for the first time had been equally so.
General Store featured no Guardians of the Beam such as Roland had told of in Mejis, but rockers were lined up the long length of the porch, as many as two dozen of them.
Strat, and I run it through two Roland SDE-2500 delays for chorus and a little slapback echo to fatten it up.
Roland that I will go to all the tabloids and tell how Peter physically abused me.
Roland had been listening to the muffled but still maddening sound of the todash chimes.
I shall be shut up with the tire-women else, and have a week of spindle and bodkin, when I would fain be galloping Troubadour up Wilverley Walk, or loosing little Roland at the Vinney Ridge herons.
Alarmed, both Roland and Belial pulled the brothers back, speaking to them urgently.
This second report was written on fine India paper which Monsieur Roland took to a calligrapher in Paris.