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boles, plural;
  1. Fine, compact, earthy clay, typically of a reddish color, used as a pigment

  1. a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
  2. trunk: the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
  3. a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa
  4. Bôle is a municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
  5. In botany, trunk (or bole) refers to the main structural member of a tree that supports the branches and is supported by and directly attached to the roots. ...
  6. Bole is a color that is a symbolic representation of the color of the trunk of a tree. There is an English word bole meaning the trunk of a tree, but according to the American Heritage Dictionary, this word is simply a homograph/homophone that does not share the etymological origin of the color ...
  7. Bole or Bole - Bamboi is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Bole is located in the Bole district of the Northern Region of Ghana.
  8. Böle is a locality situated in Piteå Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 418 inhabitants in 2005.
  9. The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it
  10. Tree stem that has roughly grown to a substantial thickness, capable of yielding sawtimber, veneer logs, or large poles (26).
  11. Clays which adhere to the tongue when applied dry and which are colored yellow and red by a ferruginous (iron oxide) earth.
  12. Bole is a pinkish clay applied by an illuminator under gold leaf to make the gold appear thicker, more lavish, and three-dimensional.
  13. A red earthy mineral, resembling clay in character, used in the preparation for gilding edges.
  14. Stem or trunk, usually refers to tree. Probably describes a particularly large bamboo culm.
  15. A soft clay, available in several colors, but notably red and yellow, added to gesso for bulk, color, and flexibility.
  16. Main part of the stem of a tree before it separates into branches.
  17. The stem or trunk of a tree that has grown to a substantial height and diameter.
  18. an impalpable powdery red clay. Found in eastern Mediterranean countries. It is used in the compounding of enamel colors and also as a pigment. TOP
  19. Different color clays used as a base for leafing. Red clay brings out the brilliance of leaf, blue clay is used for silver leaf, and yellow simulated gold in areas where you don't want to waste gold. In today's usage it also describes a layer of color applied before the metal leaf.
  20. the main stem of a tree, sometimes used to describe large bamboo culms
  21. a clay (consisting of kaolinite and other clay minerals), used as a substratum for gilding and capable of receiving a high polish when burnished. Being a clay, bole consists not of roundish but of minute plate-like elements. ...
  22. A Slytherin who plays Beater for their Quidditch team.
  23. Technically, trunk of a tree; loosely used as referring to the base.