boules

See also: boulés

English

Etymology

In the sense of the game, a shortening of French jeu de boules.

Noun

boules

  1. plural of boule

Noun

boules (uncountable)

  1. bowls; a game played with metal balls.

Quotations

ball
  • 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, page 274
    Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

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French

Noun

boules f

  1. plural of boule

Verb

boules

  1. second-person singular present indicative of bouler
  2. second-person singular present subjunctive of bouler

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