Used in a Sentence

boucle

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for boucle.

Editorial note

If you're surprised that a wool/alpaca blend fabric isn't heard wearing, or that boucle snags easily then you didn't think through the purchase.

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Quick take

A surname

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of boucle gathered in one view.

noun

A surname

noun

Alternative spelling of bouclé. [A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for boucle.

noun

A surname

noun

Alternative spelling of bouclé. [A fabric knitted or woven of uneven yarn with a surface of loops and curls.]

Example sentences

1

If you're surprised that a wool/alpaca blend fabric isn't heard wearing, or that boucle snags easily then you didn't think through the purchase.

2

The flambier boucle fabric looks great, but as a cat owner, I'd never purchase it.

3

It’s funny because a lot of these are near everyday use French words: - boucle: loop - ruche: beehive - chignon: hair bun?

4

Curiously, peplum, boucle, and rouche were exactly the ones I didn't recognize.

5

- boucle - late 19th century: French, literally ‘buckled, curled’.

6

If you have an oriented graph with N nodes, and the possibility to boucle up on yourself, than you may compute the number of available paths, (edges, transitions,...) according to this it is [ N possibilties X N possibilieties ].

7

Asking to do a grande boucle without spares would be like asking formula one to go a whole season on a single set of tires - both would be perfectly possible with some adoption of hardware and tactics, but both would completely change the nature of the events.

Quote examples

1

I can think of one such place, a three tracks layup on the so-called "Boucle des Invalides".

2

France is always on the edge of the precipice and of “we’ll never ever going to win La Grande Boucle again!

Proper noun examples

1

There were basically bootleg races under a different name (The Grande Boucle) in the 90s and early 2000s.

2

The most fun is a simple Claude Code in a loop, Boucle, which builds and iterates on its own framework[0][1].

3

People generally just want cables to be buried, but apparently this poses more problems than just added cost, so companies are reluctant to do it (as far as I understand it at least, I've only looked it up briefly in relation to the Ventilus/Boucle du Hainaut project here in Belgium).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use boucle in a sentence?

If you're surprised that a wool/alpaca blend fabric isn't heard wearing, or that boucle snags easily then you didn't think through the purchase.

What does boucle mean?

A surname

What part of speech is boucle?

boucle is commonly used as noun.