buhl

• POS: Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

buhl, n. [From A. Ch. Boule, a French carver in wood.].

 Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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.

Etymology

(buhl Germanized) f. A. C. Boule, Fr. wood-carver d. 1732