Definitions for buhls

buhls buhl

Spelling: [bool]
IPA: /bul/

Buhls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in buhls (bhlsu).

Definitions for buhls

noun

  1. elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.

Origin of buhls

1815-25; from Germanized form of French boulle or boule, named after A. C. Boulle or Boule (1642-1732), French cabinetmaker

Examples for buhls

Even one who knew more of saddles than of buhl and Empire could see that at a glance.

The name has been corrupted into a trade term buhl, to denote this style of marquetry.

Anna got up, looked, found the cards in the drawer of a buhl cabinet.

Then Mrs. buhl, famous in such emergencies, came to the rescue.

The letter had been on the buhl cabinet, and she had opened it in his presence.

buhl was fifteen and only a couple of inches taller than Ruth.

The necklace made a great heap of jewels on the buhl top of the table, above the intricate arabesque of silver and tortoise-shell.

buhl, or Boulle, is inlaid work with tortoise-shell or metals in arabesques or cartouches.

Why not see what this dream had to offer that might be amusing to remember and tell buhl sometime soon.

Dr. Lepardo was off again upon his voyage of discovery, drifting from picture to vase, from statuette to buhl cabinet.

Word Value for buhls
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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