n. (also boule, boulle) 1 pieces of brass, tortoiseshell, etc., cut to make a pattern and used as decorative inlays esp. on furniture. 2 work inlaid with buhl. 3 (attrib.) inlaid with buhl.
[ (buhl Germanized) f. A. c. Boule, Fr. wood-carver d. 1732 ]