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Boule   /bul/   Listen
Boule

noun
1.
An inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork.  Synonyms: boulle, buhl.






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"Boule" Quotes from Famous Books



... think, (members of the) Boule, that it was possible, if one wished, to keep quiet, and not to be troubled with lawsuits and vexatious business; but I have now fallen in with such unlooked-for charges and such villainous accusers that, were it ...
— The Orations of Lysias • Lysias

... last into sunlight again, she steamed across and put in past the Carousel, that picturesque and rocky headland, into Seven Islands Bay. Here she anchored, and, having discharged cargo, steamed out by the Grand Boule, where eighteen miles beyond the islands Bennie saw the pilot house of the old St. Olaf, of unhappy memory, just lifting above ...
— The Man Who Rocked the Earth • Arthur Train



Words linked to "Boule" :   embellishment, boulle, buhl



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