boules

See also: boulés

English

Etymology

From French boules

Noun

boules

plural of boule
bowls; games 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.

Translations

games played with metal balls

Catalan: petanca (ca) f
Esperanto: globludo, petanko
French: boules (fr) f, pétanque (fr) f
Italian: bocce f pl
Lao: ເປຕັງ (pē tang), ເປຕອງ (pē tǭng)

Occitan: bòlas f, petanca f
Portuguese: petanca f
Russian: пета́нк (ru) m (petánk)
Spanish: petanca (es) f

Anagrams

Lobues, besoul, blouse, obelus

French

Noun

boules f

plural of boule

Verb

boules

second-person singular present indicative of bouler
second-person singular present subjunctive of bouler

Anagrams

blouse

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