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Rolex
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rolex
English
thumb|a Rolex
thumb|a different Rolex
Etymology
en Q28901 1908 1 as a trade name. Wildorf later explained: "I tried combining the letters of the alphabet in every possible way. This gave me some hundred names, but none of them felt quite right. One morning, while riding on the upper deck of a horse-drawn omnibus along Cheapside in the City of London, a genie whispered ‘Rolex’ in my ear."en Rolex History - 1905-1919 rolex.com https://web.archive.org/web/20240913052322/https://www.rolex.com/about-rolex/history/1905-1919 n.d.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɹəʊlɛks/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Rolex.wav US
en rolex
Noun
A luxury wristwatch produced by the brand Rolex SA.
en 2015 Dorothea Benton Frank Carolina Girls He pulled up his sleeve and there on his scrawny arm hung a Rolex the size of Big Ben.
Derived terms
en fauxlex Rolecks Rolexed Rollie
Translations
luxury wristwatch
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 勞力士, yue 勞 lou1
Mandarin: cmn 勞力士
Min Nan: nan 露螺 Lō͘-lê
References
Further reading
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