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boulle

n. (context woodworking English) (alternative form of buhl English)

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boulle

n. an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork [syn: boule, buhl]

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Boulle

Boulle or Boullé is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • André Charles Boulle (1642–1732), French cabinetmaker
  • Francis Boulle (born 1988), British entrepreneur
  • Helene Boullé (fl. 1598–1635), French nun
  • Mark Boulle (born 1979), Australian musician
  • Pierre Boulle (1912–1994), French novelist
  • Philippe Boullé, Seychellois lawyer and politician
  • Jean-Raymond Boulle, mining entrepreneur, founder and principal shareholder of Titanium Resources Group

Usage examples of "boulle".

It could have been an elegant eighteenth-century Parisian drawing room, with its Beauvias tapestry and works by Valesquez, Steen, Arthur Frick, and Cezanne on the walls, Boulle cabinet and desk, Louis XVI chairs and tables, Bohemian crystal chandelier, and enormous blood-red Bakhtiari carpet.

A11 at once, Madame de Boulle, who affected to be bustling about, pointed out that the presence of so many persons was what hindered the countess's accouchement, and, assuming an air of authority justified by fictitious tenderness, said that everyone must retire, leaving the patient in the hands of the persons who were absolutely necessary to her, and that, to remove any possible objections, the countess dowager her mother must set the example.