Brewer's: Buhl-work

Cabinet-work, inlaid with brass; so called from Signor Boule, the inventor, who settled in Paris during the reign of Louis XIV. (The word should be spelt BOULE-WORK.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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