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 Bougie.Boul’janus. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
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.)   1
 


 Bougie.Boul’janus. 

 
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