Boule

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  • noun. A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina.
  • noun. A round loaf of bread.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The proper French spelling of buhl.
  • noun. An obsolete form of bowl.
  • noun. In Greek antiquity, a legislative council, originally aristocratic, consisting of the heads of the citizen families, sitting under the presidency of the king.
  • noun. The legislative assembly of modern Greece.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Same as buhl, buhlwork.
  • noun. A legislative council of elders or chiefs; a senate.
  • noun. Legislature of modern Greece. See Legislature.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
  • noun. A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
  • noun. A round loaf of bread.
  • noun. A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
  • noun. Alternative form of buhl.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
  • Word Usage
    "Silicon wafers are sliced by a wire saw from a large cylinder of silicon, called a boule, but there is material called kerf loss during the process."
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    boulework  
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    Abdul  Boole  Dzhambul  Istanbul  Jewel  
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    senate  
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