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Definition of Boule
1. Noun. An inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork.
Definition of Boule
1. n. Same as Buhl, Buhlwork.
2. n. A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
Definition of Boule
1. Noun. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. ¹
2. Noun. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boule
1. buhl [n -S] - See also: buhl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boule
Literary usage of Boule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1899)
"On the other hand, it must be stated that a needle-dam can be opened much more
rapidly than a boule dam, as constructed at present. ..."
2. A Manual of Greek Antiquities by Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons (1895)
"the other hand, the boule as a body could only pass resolutions, ... True it is
that nothing could come before the ecclesia but through the boule; ..."
3. The Athenian grain-tax law of 374/3 B.C. by Ronald S. Stroud (1998)
"See Rhodes 1981, ad hc., and for the role of the boule, Rhodes 1972, pages 96-98.
I conclude from this evidence that the selling of the ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This fact has been established by the investigations of Penck, but especially by
those of boule and Ober- maier, who refer the event to the third ..."
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