Boule may refer to:
Ball games
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Boules
Boules (, ), or ''jeu de boules'', is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the ''jack''. 'Boules' its ...
, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball
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Pétanque
Pétanque (, ; ; ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with Raffa (boules), raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, Bowls, lawn bowls, and Crown green bowls, crown green bowling). In these sports, players or teams play thei ...
, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English
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Boule Lyonnaise
("flying boules"), or ("Lyonnais boules"), is a boules-type game.
In ', the balls are thrown or rolled overhand (palm down) or underhand (palm up) and are metal. In non-standard ', the wooden or plastic balls are tossed underhand (palm up) and ...
, another boules game of French origin
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Boule Bretonne, a boules game from Brittany
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Boule (gambling game), a game similar to roulette
People
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Boule (community), an Akan people in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
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Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé (1799–1865), French playwright
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Marcellin Boule
Pierre-Marcellin Boule (1 January 1861 – 4 July 1942), better known as merely Marcellin Boule, was a French palaeontologist, geologist, and anthropologist.
Early life and education
Pierre-Marcellin Boule was born in Montsalvy, France.
Car ...
(1861–1942), French palaeontologist
Politics
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Boule (ancient Greece), a citizens' council appointed to run daily affairs of a city
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Hellenic Parliament
The Parliament of the Hellenes (), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (), is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens. The parliament is the supreme demo ...
, transliterated as Vouli or Boule from Greek
Science and geography
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Boule (crystal)
A boule is a single crystal, single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
A boule of silicon is the starting material for most of the integrated circuits used today. In the semiconductor industry synthetic boules can be made by a number o ...
, an ingot of synthetically produced crystal
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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 co ...
, 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
Sigma Pi Phi (), also known as The Boulé, is an African American professional fraternity. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1904, it is the oldest Greek lettered fraternity for African Americans. The fraternity does not have collegiate ...
fraternity, the oldest fraternity for African Americans named with Greek letters
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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). ...
, a round loaf of white bread
* Boule, in
Chadian cuisine
Chadian cuisine is the cooking traditions, practices, foods and dishes associated with the Chad, Republic of Chad. Chadians use a medium variety of grains, vegetables, fruits and meats. Commonly consumed grains include millet, sorghum, and rice ...
, a porridge
See also
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Bole (disambiguation)
Bole may refer to:
Places
* Bole District, Ghana
* Bole, Ghana, town
* Bole (Ghana parliament constituency)
* Bole, Nottinghamshire, England
* Bole (Sub-City of Addis Ababa), Ethiopia
** Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Ethiopia
* Bo ...
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Bool (disambiguation)
Bool may refer to:
People
* Al Bool (1897–1981), American baseball player
* Henry Bool (1846–1922), American anarchist
Places
* Bool (Ludhiana East), a village in Punjab, India
* Bool, Tagbilaran, a barangay (suburb) in the Philippines
* Bool ...
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Boole (disambiguation)
George Boole (1815–1864) was a British mathematician and philosopher, and originator of Boolean algebra.
Boole may also refer to:
* Boole (band), an electronic music group from the United States
* Boole (crater), a lunar crater
* Boole (tree) ...
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Boul (disambiguation) Boul may refer to:
* Boul, a tributary of the Suceava
Suceava () is a Municipiu, city in northeastern Romania. The seat of Suceava County, it is situated in the Historical regions of Romania, historical regions of Bukovina and Western Moldavia, ...
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Boule et Bill
''Boule et Bill'' (known in English as ''Billy & Buddy'') is a popular comics, comic, created in 1959 by Franco-Belgian comics, Belgian Comic book creator, writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy. In 2003, the artistic responsib ...
'', Belgian comic strip
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Boulle
Boulle is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Jean Boulle, the father of André Charles Boulle, a cabinetmaker to the King of France
* André Charles Boulle (1642–1732), French cabinetmaker to the Sun King
* Étienne- ...
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Boully (surname)
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Bowl (disambiguation)
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