Etymology

rocambole

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Today it means: The sand leek, Allium scorodoprasum Full definition →

French rocambole ← German Rockenbolle
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The story

  1. German · derived fromRockenbolle
  2. French · borrowed fromrocambole
  3. English todayrocambole

Borrowed from French rocambole, from regional German Rockenbolle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.