boulle

Noun

buhl (usually uncountable, plural buhls)

1. (attributive, often, usually) A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
   • In preparation for a client of his type, she had brought into the shop a buhl cabinet, selected from Jabez Rintle's hoard, and that piece, with its elaborate craftsmanship in brass, inlay, tortoiseshell and carving, arrested Mr Jacobson's flair for a bargain in financial values at least.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158
2. (usually) Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.
   • Fancy a Member of Parliament and an old English Baronet, by Gad! obliged to put a drawing-room clock and a buhl inkstand up the spout; and a gold duck’s-head paper-holder, that I dare say cost my wife five pound, for which they’d only give me fifteen-and-six!1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 61, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

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