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boulle [bool] Examples noun (often initial capital letter) Furniture.
- buhl.
Also called boulle·work [bool-wurk] /ˈbulˌwɜrk/. buhl or boule, boulle [bool] noun (often initial capital letter)
- elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.
Origin of buhl 1815–25; from Germanized form of French boulle or boule, named after A. C. Boulle or Boule (1642–1732), French cabinetmakerAlso called buhl·work [bool-wurk] /ˈbulˌwɜrk/, boulework, boullework. Examples from the Web for boulle Historical Examples of boulle
With this work the name of Boulle is indissolubly associated.
F. Hamilton Jackson
Buhl, or Boulle, is inlaid work with tortoise-shell or metals in arabesques or cartouches.
N. Hudson Moore
Boulle was given an apartment in the Louvre and for his great master the celebrated bniste composed his choicest work.
N. Hudson Moore
When there are only two slices of material the technical term for them is Boulle and Counter.
F. Hamilton Jackson
Collecting was to Boulle a mania of which, says his friend, it was impossible to cure him.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3
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British Dictionary definitions for boulle boulle boule or buhl adjective
- denoting or relating to a type of marquetry of patterned inlays of brass and tortoiseshell, occasionally with other metals such as pewter, much used on French furniture from the 17th century
noun
- Also called: boullework something ornamented with such marquetry
Word Origin for boulle C18: named after André Charles Boulle (1642–1732), French cabinet-maker buhl adjective, noun
- the usual US spelling of boulle