: a bowling game of French origin in which a player standing within a circle placed or scratched on the ground throws or rolls usually steel balls down a long typically dirt or gravel court to stop as close as possible to a smaller target ball
Now home to 18 wineries, the area also attracts devotees of the French game pétanque. During the last weekend in November, players toss boules (balls) on the median of the town's main street …—Saveur
The object of pétanque … is for competitors to roll their boules against … a much smaller ball that is rolled out 6-10 meters (approximately 20-33 feet) on a hard surface (stone dust preferred) to start the game.—Kevin Paul Dupont
called also boules
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