buhl, 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