poule

• (UK) IPA^(key): /puːl/

Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.

poule (plural poules)

1. A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]
   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society 2008, p. 40:

     It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.

   • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:

     ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

poule (plural poules)

1. Obsolete form of pool (in various senses)

• Loupe, Puleo, loupe

From Latin pulla.

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen

• geleigne

• IPA^(key): /pul/

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From Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of from Latin pullus.

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)
2. (slang) chick, bird (woman)

• chair de poule
• poule mouillée
• quand les poules auront des dents

• poulain
• poulet

• coq

Of uncertain origin.

poule f (plural poules)

1. (card games) pool
2. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

• phase de poule

• English: pool

• loupe, loupé

• “poule” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).

poule f (plural poules)

1. (Jersey) hen

• g'linne

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

poule f (plural poules)

1. hen (female chicken)

• poulet

• → Middle English: pulle
• French: poule
• Norman: poule

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)

poule f (plural poules)

1. pool stage