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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[From A. Ch.

Boule

, a French carver in wood.]

Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.

[Written also

boule

boulework

See also: buhl work

buhlwork ‎(uncountable)