Boule vs Poule - What's the difference?
boule | poule |
One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
A round loaf of bread.
(woodworking) A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
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A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 369:
*:‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’