Boule may refer to:
Ball games
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Boules, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball
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Pétanque
Pétanque (, ; ; ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with Raffa (boules), raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, Bowls, lawn bowls, and Crown green bowls, crown green bowling). In these sports, players or teams play thei ...
, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English
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Boule Lyonnaise, another boules game of French origin
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Boule Bretonne, a boules game from Brittany
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Boule (gambling game), a game similar to roulette
People
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Boule (community), an Akan people in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
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Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé (1799–1865), French playwright
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Marcellin Boule (1861–1942), French palaeontologist
Politics
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Boule (ancient Greece), a citizens' council appointed to run daily affairs of a city
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Hellenic Parliament
The Parliament of the Hellenes (), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (), is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens. The parliament is the supreme demo ...
, transliterated as Vouli or Boule from Greek
Science and geography
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Boule (crystal)
A boule is a single crystal, single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
A boule of silicon is the starting material for most of the integrated circuits used today. In the semiconductor industry synthetic boules can be made by a number o ...
, an ingot of synthetically produced crystal
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Boule (gene), an alias for the gene BOLL, responsible for sperm production in animals
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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
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Boule (bread), a round loaf of white bread
* Boule, in
Chadian cuisine, a porridge
See also
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Bole (disambiguation)
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Bool (disambiguation)
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Boole (disambiguation)
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Boul (disambiguation)
* ''
Boule et Bill'', Belgian comic strip
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Boulle (surname)
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Boully (surname)
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Bowl (disambiguation)
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