Boule

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Boule may refer to:

Ball games

• Boules, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball
  • Pétanque, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English
  • Boule Lyonnaise, another boules game of French origin
  • Boule Bretonne, a boules game from Brittany
• Boule (gambling game), a game similar to roulette

People

• Boule (community), an Akan people in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
• Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé (1799–1865), French playwright
• Marcellin Boule (1861–1942), French palaeontologist

Politics

• Boule (ancient Greece), a citizens' council appointed to run daily affairs of a city
• Hellenic Parliament, transliterated as Vouli or Boule from Greek

Science and geography

• Boule (crystal), an ingot of synthetically produced crystal
• Boule (gene), an alias for the gene BOLL, responsible for sperm production in animals
• Boule Range [sv], one of the Northern Continental Ranges in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Other uses

• The Boulé, or Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, the oldest fraternity for African Americans named with Greek letters
• Boule (bread), a round loaf of white bread

See also

• Bole (disambiguation)
• Bool (disambiguation)
• Boole (disambiguation)
• Boul (disambiguation)
• Boule et Bill, Belgian comic strip
• Boulle (surname)
• Boully (surname)
• Bowl (disambiguation)

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