boules

In the sense of the game, a shortening of French jeu de boules.

boules

1. plural of boule

boules (uncountable)

1. bowls; a game played with metal balls.

ball

• 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, page 274

  Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

• Lobues, besoul, blouse, obelus

boules f

1. plural of boule

boules

1. second-person singular present indicative of bouler
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of bouler

• blouse