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Buhl

Buhl \Buhl\, Buhlwork \Buhl"work\, n. [From A. Ch. Boule, a French carver in wood.] Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc. [Written also boule, boulework.]

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buhl

n. 1 (surname) 2 An unincorporated community in Alabama 3 One of two communes in France 4 A city in Idaho 5 A city in Minnesota

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buhl

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

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Buhl, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 3985
Housing Units (2000): 1689
Land area (2000): 1.683518 sq. miles (4.360292 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.683518 sq. miles (4.360292 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10810
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.600102 N, 114.761867 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83316
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Buhl, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 983
Housing Units (2000): 432
Land area (2000): 3.287491 sq. miles (8.514561 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.241620 sq. miles (0.625792 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.529111 sq. miles (9.140353 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08524
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.494897 N, 92.773855 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Buhl

Buhl is a decorative type of marquetry of patterned inlays of brass or tortoiseshell, or (occasionally) other materials, used on chiefly French furniture, from the 17th century. The word is the German spelling of Boulle and is used chiefly in American English.

Buhl may also refer to:

Bühl (Baden)

The city of Bühl is part of the district of Rastatt in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It has a history reaching back to the twelfth century and was formerly an agricultural town, especially famous for its plums. Bühl has a population of about 29,000, and is in the region between the Rhine Valley and the Black Forest.

Today it is mainly an industrial town, especially in the car manufacturing supply industry. Yet it still has preserved its character and is also renowned for its good restaurants.

Bühl is a town in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about South of Baden-Baden. Bühl is the third largest town in Rastatt County (Landkreis), after Rastatt itself and Gaggenau. Due to its location, size and importance it has become a central place for numerous towns, townships and villages in the neighbourhood. Bühl was proclaimed a major district town (Große Kreisstadt) on 1 January 1973, after it lost its status as an independent county seat during municipal reforms in Baden-Württemberg. Bühl has agreed to form a joint administrative community with the municipality of Ottersweier.

Bühl (Tübingen)

Bühl is a village in the Tübingen district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since 1971, it is an outer district of the city of Tübingen.

Bühl has a population of 2 194 on an area of 6,41 km². It lies on the southern bank of the Neckar river, directly adjacent to the east to Kilchberg, 4 km to the east of Rottenburg am Neckar and about 6 km to the southwest of the inner city of Tübingen.

Category:Villages in Baden-Württemberg

Usage examples of "buhl".

Gold veins were capricious, but none of the Buhl Mining men cared to gamble unnecessarily.

He meant to keep this claim, risking all for duty and compassion, while his own good sense of preservation suggested that Miss Braddock was perfect insurance for him to keep what Buhl so badly wanted.

Jealousy, envy, fear of losing him, fear of never having had him, apprehension over the differences in their cultures, the differences in their experience and feelings, the suddenly real threat of Buhl Mining versus claims 1014-15, all contrived to generate the hysterical scream.

Blaze as his wife and standing up to a menacing conglomerate like Buhl Mining as well?

She also knew, eventually, they must face her father, Buhl Mining, the uncertain future.

Penobscot Building and the second Buhl Building colored like an Indian belt, the New Union Trust Building, the Cadillac Tower, the Fisher Building with its gilded roof.

Then she pokes the fire, draws a little buhl table close up to the hearth, spreads a white cloth, sets out the plates, puts the spoons by them, and enchanted, impatient, with flushed complexion, leans back in an armchair.

It fitted exactly into the central wall panel above the narrow buhl cabinet, and filled exactly its right space in the composition and balance of the room.

James watched, fascinated, as the duke tapped his fingertips together, his dark eyes seeming to stare at a delicate Dresden figure atop the buhl cabinet in the corner.

Winifred, whom he noticed next to the furniture, was sitting at her Buhl bureau with a letter in her hand.

The delicate china on the tall chimney-piece, the few bits of Buhl and Vernis Martin about the room, the vision through the open doorway of the supper-table spread with a fine white cloth, and sparkling with silver, all spoke of fastidious tastes, of habits of luxury and elegance, which the spirit of Equality and Anarchy had not succeeded in eradicating.

It is clearly essential to the interest of this theory that the thought or rule alluded to by Buhler should not need to be expressed in words, for if it is expressed in words it is immediately capable of being dealt with on the lines with which the behaviourists have familiarized us.

The things that were neither bureaux, beds, bags, boxes, baskets nor bibelot-tables could usually be described as big, black, brown or buhl or, at a pinch, as being bedroom or boudoir furniture, and since every shelf, drawer and pigeonhole in every object was crammed full of newspaper-cuttings, letters and assorted souvenirs, the searchers soon found their heads, legs and backs aching with effort.

There was a minute's delay while the colonel told them to release the truck driver and search the inside of the truck for any personal luggage Buhl might have been forced to abandon there -- they found his overnight bag almost immediately and stuffed his gun into it -- then Szendro opened the front right-hand door of the car and gestured Reynolds to his seat.

Buhler, characteristically, toadied to Heydrich: 'He had only one favour to ask - that the Jewish question in the General Government be solved as rapidly as possible.