boul
See also: boul.
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Noun edit
boul (plural bouls)
- (archaic, rare) A curved handle.
- 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- this comes to hand like the boul of a pint stoup
References edit
- “boul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Antillean Creole edit
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boul
French edit
Noun edit
boul m (plural bouls)
- Abbreviation of boulevard. Alternative form of boul.
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Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *betullus, from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.
Also compare Catalan bedoll, Portuguese bétula, Italian betulla.
Noun edit
boul oblique singular, m (oblique plural bous or box or bouls, nominative singular bous or box or bouls, nominative plural boul)
- birch (tree)
Descendants edit
- French: bouleau
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (boul)
Romanian edit
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boul m