Rolls-Royce

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Rolls-Royce [ˌrəʊlzˈrɔɪs]

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1. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Also called (informal) Rolls a make of very high-quality, luxurious, and prestigious British car. The Rolls-Royce company is no longer British-owned

2. anything considered to be the very best of its kind

[named after its designers, Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910), English pioneer motorist and aviator, and Sir (Frederick) Henry Royce (1863-1933), English engineer, who founded the Rolls-Royce Company (1906)]

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