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

Her house is very finely furnished, with heavy pile carpets and many mirrors, and buhl and ormolu everywhere.

From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

She staggered upstairs to the first drawing-room in which there was a silly pretty little buhl writing table.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett

My lady shivered and looked round at the bright collection of bric-a-brac, as if the Sevres and bronze, the buhl and ormolu, had been the moldering adornments of some ruined castle.

From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A sunbeam slips through the window-shade into the half-light of the room and gleams upon the buhl furniture.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' 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

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