Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.
- noun A round loaf of bread.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The proper French spelling of
buhl . - noun An obsolete form of
bowl . - noun In Greek antiquity, a legislative council, originally aristocratic, consisting of the heads of the citizen families, sitting under the presidency of the king.
- noun The legislative assembly of modern Greece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
buhl ,buhlwork . - noun (Gr. Antiq.) A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
- noun Legislature of modern Greece. See
Legislature .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the
bowls used in the French game ofboules . - noun A single-
crystal ingot produced bysynthetic means. - noun A round loaf of bread.
- noun woodworking A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with
waney edges. - noun woodworking Alternative form of
buhl .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Silicon wafers are sliced by a wire saw from a large cylinder of silicon, called a boule, but there is material called kerf loss during the process.
unknown title 2009
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They live in a little peasant's room near a stable; they eat the food of the wounded, not very varied -- 'boule' every two weeks.
The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Or spoon a boule or two into a bowl of soup, then ladle it out when the broth hits the desired salinity.
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Perhaps this motivated me to try a shot with too much panache or maybe it just slipped out of my hand, but the moment the boule left my hand, I knew it was wrong.
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Athenian laws were prefaced with the statement Edoxe te boule kai to demo, "It is the considered opinion of parliament and the people".
Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism | Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou 2011
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Perhaps this motivated me to try a shot with too much panache or maybe it just slipped out of my hand, but the moment the boule left my hand, I knew it was wrong.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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(In fact, there is a boule tournement no matter when or where we meet up.)
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This year I will go to Marseille to find the firm "La boule blue".
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The DLT is where it shines: duck bacon with fried duck egg, heirloom tomato, watercress and garlic aioli is nestled between slices of country boule $16.
Duck, Duck, Goose 2011
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So he "invented" a game where the players must keep their feet ancored (pied ancre) while throwing the boule and thus saving his knees!
trivet commented on the word boule
I'd only ever encountered boule in bakeries, but:
1. A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.
2. A round loaf of white bread.
(French, ball, from Old French, bubble, from Latin bulla.)
3. The lower house of the modern Greek legislature.
4. - a. The senate of 400 founded by Solon in ancient Athens.
- b. A legislative assembly in any one of the ancient Greek states.
(Greek boul, assembly; see gwel- in Indo-European roots.)
5. an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork (syn: boulle)
May 21, 2007