boule

Lawn bowling ball

Boule is a French ball game similar to bocce, played by tossing or rolling metal balls toward a small target ball called a cochonnet: They spent the afternoon playing boule in the park.

The word also refers to the ball itself.

In a different sense, boule is a pear-shaped mass of synthetic crystal, especially sapphire or ruby, grown in a laboratory for industrial or gemological use.

Greek

Athens

Greece's capital city

Solon · Pericles · archon · citizens · deliberation · assembly · council · deme · lot · quorum

petanque

jack

Device for lifting vehicles

lob · circle · throw · pitch · metal · score · end · frame · fanny · measure

crystal

ingot

Cast metal block

pulling · melt · seed · doping · crucible · germanium · growth · monocrystalline · solidification · rod

council

assembly

Constructing from components

chamber · councillors · magistrates · representatives · governing · committee · session · deliberation · ordinance · statute

bread

round

Curved like circle

sourdough · artisan · scoring · oven · baking · crumb · dome · rustic · flour · levain

Categories
Opposites
game role (in pétanque/boules)

boulejack

Device for lifting vehicles

but · piglet · petit

political body type (ancient Greek)

bouledemos

Promotional trial versions

assembly · tyranny · monarchy · dictatorship

Phrases
Family

bouleuterion, boules

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Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G