Etymology Blend of rolled + eggs. The name rolex comes from its method of preparation, with the chapati and the egg omelette rolled together.
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Uganda An omelette served inside a chapati.
Rolex is a chapati roll with fried eggs stuffed in, accompanied with fresh vegetable salad.2008, A Visitor's Guide to Uganda: 2008/2009, Tourguide Publications:
All this time our rolex has always been a humble meal; a taste best savoured around suburbs by those who, if not out of time to prepare a decent meal, are out of money to do as much. […] To spice up the event, a dish of well-manicured and half-piece (half-piece!) rolexes was ushered in.2016 August 20, Peter Kagayi, “The curious case of the rolex”, in Daily Monitor:
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A welcome, if humble, addition to Kampala's edible offerings is the 'rolex'. This is nothing more (or less) than a freshly cooked chapati enhanced by a fresh omelette, chopped onions, green peppers and finely sliced cabbage.2016, Philip Briggs, Uganda:
An omelette fried and rolled up in a chapati (Indian flatbread), rolex is excellent food on the go, and a firm breakfast favourite on the streets of Kampala, where it's often still served in a roll or cone of newspaper.2018, Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eats:
Rolex
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Etymology Coined ex nihilo by German watchmaker Hans Wilsdorf in 1908 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."
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A luxury wristwatch produced by the brand Rolex SA.
He pulled up his sleeve and there on his scrawny arm hung a Rolex the size of Big Ben.2015, Dorothea Benton Frank, Carolina Girls: