Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Boule

or Boule-work (not Buhl). A kind of marquetry; so called from André Charles Boule, a cabinetmaker, to whom Louis XIV. gave apartments in the Louvre. (1642-1732.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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