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Roche

Roche \Roche\, n. [See Rock.] Rock. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

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Roche is French for "boulder/rock". The word is (part of) several names:

Roche (crater)

Roche is a large crater on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. The prominent crater Pauli lies across the southern rim of Roche, and the outer rampart of Pauli covers a portion of Roche's interior floor. To the north-northwest of Roche is the crater Eötvös, and just to the west-northwest lies Rosseland.

The western rim of Roche has been somewhat distorted and straightened. The rim as a whole is worn and eroded, with multiple tiny craterlets marking the surface. The satellite crater Roche B lies across the northeastern inner wall.

The interior floor of Roche is relatively level, but is also marked by several small and tiny craterlets. A grouping of these craters lies near the midpoint. Just to the northwest of this grouping is a bright patch of high- albedo material. Sections of the floor along the north-northwestern side have a lower albedo than elsewhere, usually an indication of basaltic- lava flows similar to what fills the lunar maria. The extent of this patch may actually be larger, but covered with higher- albedo ejecta.

Roche (Vaud)
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Usage examples of "roche".

Roche had brought, poured some on a cloth, and swabbed the bubo gently with it.

The boy had a bubo on his back, and Kivrin lanced it while Roche and the mother held him.

Father Roche with Mary in her lap, Alice Press with Deborah pillion behind Benjamin, the rest duskily in the rear.

Other street names included Roachies, Ropes, La Rocha, Rib Roche, R-2, and Mexican Valium.

Comte de la Roche had just finished dejeuner, consisting of an omelette fines herbes, an entrecote Bearnaise, and a Savarin au Rhum.

As Skeat and Totesham were both independent captains, there could have been jealousy between them, but the two men respected each other and, while Totesham and his men stayed in La Roche- Derrien and strengthened its defences, Skeat rode out into the country to punish the folk who paid their rents and owed their allegiance to Duke Charles.

Roches kept mum or even spoke in French before our faces - indeed, so stupid was Mervyn that he had been known to do so before Mounseer Daskin, the cook, who could speak better French than any Roche had spoken since 1066 and we took heart.

When Lady Imeyne told Kivrin to take six beeswax candles to Father Roche, she was delighted with the chance to get the girls out of the house.

Comte de la Roche had just finished dejeuner, consisting of an omelette fines herbes, an entrecote Bearnaise, and a Savarin au Rhum.

From the middle of the twentieth century, there has been an Occitan language revival, led by authors, poets and historians such as Rene Nelli, Jean Duvernoy, Deodat Roche, Michel Roquebert, Anne Brenon, Claude Marti and others.

Brocas and the scarlet fish of the De Roches were waving over a strong body of archers from Holt, Woolmer, and Harewood forests.

Les Roches, an old-fashioned little place I inherited from my father, at which I pass a great deal of the year.

I reached Les Roches at about six in the evening and was charmed at the very first glance.

Gawayn graythely hit byde3, and glent with no membre, Bot stode stylle as the ston, other a stubbe auther That ratheled is in roche grounde with rote3 a hundreth.

Then there were Portage de la Roche Fendue, Portage des Chenes, Portage des Perches, Portage Talon, and Portage des Recollets, named in memory of experiences of men whom the voyageurs wished to recall or to honor, just as the French give to their streets such names as "Rue des Fleurs," "Boulevard des Capucines.