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boules

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boules

French ball game, similar to bowls and boccie. Players take turns throwing or rolling a steel ball as close as possible to a small target ball; an opponent's ball may be knocked away if necessary. The playing field is called a pitch.



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Nearby, we spotted three teenagers--two boys and a girl--playing boules.
The diverse needs of the city's recreators are met through venues for bocce, boules, cricket, paddle tennis and football, among others.
Since particular commercial brands of single crystal silicon boules are now produced routinely to part-per-million tolerances for the lattice constant, cutting an MDCS from such a boule allows absolute wavelength determination of an x-ray line to [10.
 
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