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Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of boule English) 2 bowls; games played with metal balls.
Wikipedia
Boules is a collective name for a wide range of games in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls (called boules in France, and bocce in Italy) as close as possible to a small target ball.
Boules-type games are traditional and popular in France, Italy, Malta and Croatia, and are also popular in some former French colonies. Boules games are often played in open spaces (town squares and parks) in villages and towns. Dedicated playing areas for boules-type games are typically large, level, rectangular courts made of flattened earth, gravel, or crushed stone, enclosed in wooden rails or back boards.
In the south of France, the word boules is also often used as a synonym for pétanque.
Usage examples of "boules".
I could almost hear the boots as `D' Company wheeled and turned on the square of communal gravel now set aside for games of boules.
Paunchy men played boules in the gravel near Fonquevillers' restored church, an ugly building in the same pseudo-Nouveau style as all the other post-War churches on the Somme.
Dust motes spangled the slanting beams of the sun, silver boules clack-clacked, the smell of someone's barbecue wafted over a garden hedge, my children practised somersaults.
The base of the crucifix remained, however, and was the main feature of a little square of gravel marked out for boules and named after Rene Boitelle (1921-1986).
Men leaning against the trees were ostensibly watching a group of boys playing boules on a large patch of bare earth.
As the brother of the groom, George had decided to take charge of entertainment, and together with Joshua he had begun a game of boules.
In 1773, Derues relinquished retail business, and left the Saint Victor neighbourhood, having taken an apartment in the rue des Deux Boules, near the rue Bertin-Poiree, in the parish of St.
On our last evening, as we sat outside the Cafe de la Place drinking coffee and watching the old men play boules, Cris said, "We all change in time.