Thursday, May 28, 2009

What is a word for French white sourdough bread?


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Why: In the In Touch Weekly crossword, #21 across: French white sourdough bread
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Answer: BOULE!
  • A round loaf of white bread
  • A pear-shaped synthetic sapphire, ruby, or other alumina-based gem, produced by fusing and tinting alumina
  • The lower house of the modern Greek legislature
  • An inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork
Source: OneAcross, Answers.com

The More You Know: Some of those definitions mean "ball," from Old French, bubble, from Latin bulla. The others are from Greek boulē, "assembly."