Definitions for Boule

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Boule boule

Spelling: [bool]

IPA: /bul/

Boule is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Boule (belou).

Definitions for Boule

noun

1. Also called birne. a cylindrical lump of material for synthetic gems, made by the Verneuil process.
2. a metal ball, usually made out of steel, used in pétanque.
3. Sometimes, boules. pétanque.
4. buhl.
5. the legislative assembly of modern Greece.
6. (sometimes lowercase) a state legislative, advisory, or administrative council in ancient Greece.
7. elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.

Origin of Boule

1915-20; French: literally, a ball; see bowl²

Examples for Boule

Disappointed lovers at Roville take to boule as in other places they might take to drink.

Professor boule can find no post-Mousterian evidence of such a fauna.

But in 1888 a much more definite advance was made by Professor boule.

I have re-read boule de Suif, and I maintain that it is a masterpiece.

But boule de Suif was indignant, for she was an ardent Bonapartist.

It had been supplied from the workshops of boule, the appointed upholsterer of the court.

In the election of the boule, Plato again attempts to mix aristocracy and democracy.

boule de Suif did not answer, and joined the rest of the party.

boule de Suif said nothing and rejoined the rest of the party.

But boule de Suif fired up at this for she was a Bonapartist.