buhl

American  

[bool] / bul /

Or boule,

noun

(often initial capital letter)

1. elaborate inlaid work of woods, metals, tortoiseshell, ivory, etc.

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buhl British  

/ buːl /

adjective

1. the usual US spelling of boulle

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Etymology

Origin of buhl

1815–25; from Germanized form of French boulle or boule, named after A. C. Boulle or Boule (1642–1732), French cabinetmaker

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Example Sentences

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buhl

There are cabinets against the walls, buhl tables, luxurious tapestried chairs, etc.

From The Man from Home by Luther S. White

Count Ilsenbergh was sitting in an immense reception-room decorated with frescoes, at a buhl table, evidently constructed for no more arduous duties than the evolution of love letters.

From Our Own Set A Novel by Ossip Schubin

With a gesture of weariness, he pushed the pile from him, and throwing them carelessly into the drawer of a buhl cabinet, left them until such time as Jasper Vermont could attend to them.

From Adrien Leroy by Charles Garvice

Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn Nor ape the glittering upstart fool;— Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl?

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

A decanter which had held ether was overturned on a buhl table.

From A Duel by Richard Marsh

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