BOLE

PRONUNCIATION: (bohl)

MEANING:
noun: 1. The trunk of a tree.
2. Any of various kinds of soft fine clays typically of a reddish color.
3. A reddish brown color.

ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Old Norse bolr (trunk). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to blow or swell), which also gave us ball, balloon, boll, bulk, bowl, boulevard, boulder, ballot, folly, and fool. Earliest documented use: 1314.
For 2-3: From Latin bolus (lump), from Greek bolos (clod). Earliest documented use: 1558.

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BOLLE - a source of fine French cotton

BOULE - a broad avenue in Paris, meant to be vard

BOUE ! - an unexpected sound made by a pouting ghost who is playing hard-to-get