Boule may refer to:

Ball games

* Boules, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball ** Pétanque, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English **

Boule Lyonnaise ("flying boules"), or ("Lyonnais boules"), is a boules-type game. In ', the balls are thrown overhand (palm down) and are metal. In standard ', the wooden or plastic balls are tossed underhand (palm up) and rolled. ', as it is called for short ...

, another boules game of French origin ** Boule Bretonne, a boules game from Brittany *

Boule (gambling game) Boule (French for 'ball') is a gambling game, similar to roulette, that dates back to the popular 19th-century game of ''Petits Chevaux'' ('Little Horses'). Playing The wheel is divided into 18 pockets which are numbered from 1 to 9, each numbe ...

, a game similar to roulette

People

Boule (community) Boule may refer to: Ball games * Boules, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball ** Pétanque, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English ** Boule Lyonnaise ...

, an Akan people in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa *

Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé (1 September 1799, in Paris – 3 July 1865, in Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright. A secretary at the Théâtre des Variétés, his plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time in ...

(1799–1865), French playwright * Marcellin Boule (1861–1942), French palaeontologist

Politics

Boule (ancient Greece) In cities of ancient Greece, the boule ( el, βουλή, ''boulē''; plural βουλαί, ''boulai'') was a council of over 500 citizens (βουλευταί, ''bouleutai'') appointed to run daily affairs of the city. Originally a council of nobles ...

, a citizens' council appointed to run daily affairs of a city *

Hellenic Parliament The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule (ancient Greece), Boule of the Greeks, Hellenes, label=none), also kno ...

, transliterated as Vouli or Boule from Greek

Science and geography

* Boule (crystal), an ingot of synthetically produced crystal *

Boule (gene) Boll may refer to: *Boll (surname) *Boll, an obsolete Scottish measure of volume *BOLL, a protein in humans * 7873 Böll, a main-belt asteroid *Boll case, a 1958 International Court of Justice case *Boll KG, Uwe Boll's personal production company ...

, an alias for the gene BOLL, responsible for sperm production in animals * , one of the Northern Continental Ranges in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Other uses

* The Boulé, or Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, the oldest fraternity for African Americans named with Greek letters *

Boule (bread) Boule, from French, meaning "ball", is a traditional shape of French bread resembling a squashed ball. A boule can be made using any type of flour and can be leavened with commercial yeast, chemical leavening, or even wild yeast sourdough. The ...

, a round loaf of white bread

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