The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bilboquet \Bil"bo*quet\, n. [F.] The toy called cup and ball.
Wiktionary
n. A traditional children's toy consisting of a wooden cup with a handle, and a ball attached to the cup by a string.
Usage examples of "bilboquet".
Jamie was holding a bilboquet in one hand, and had the other poised over one eye.
The child Fergus, after a brief, incurious glance at us, had resumed his trials with the bilboquet.
Fergus, apparently hardened to the sight of female limbs, ignored me altogether, concentrating grimly on the bilboquet.
The great Bilboquet has proved to us that the heart never grows old, and that the most vigorous wall-flowers flourish on old ruins.
It confides an unfledged scion to some head-clerk, or gives him in charge of a directory who initiates him into what Bilboquet, that profound philosopher, called the high comedy of government.
Her marriage, she had known for years, was finished in all but name, for the Baron was too busy chasing the teenage dollies of Paris between the Bilboquet and Castel's to come down to the chateau for the summer, or even to turn up at his son's commissioning.