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In French, the jack is known by a variety of names, including but (goal or target), cochonnet , bouchon ("little ball" in provençal language, not related to the French word "bouchon" that designates a bung), le petit (the little one), and gari ("rat", also in provençal language).
Boules (/ b uː l /, French pronunciation:), or jeu de boules, [1] is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the jack. 'Boules' itself is a French loanword that usually refers to the game especially played ...
Bocce (/ ˈ b ɒ tʃ i / ⓘ, [1] [2] or / ˈ b ɒ tʃ eɪ /, [3] Italian:), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, [4] bocci, [5] or boccie, [1] is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy , it is closely related to English bowls and French pétanque , with a common ancestry from ancient games played ...
Jeu de paume in the 17th century.. Jeu de paume (UK: / ˌ ʒ ɜː d ə ˈ p oʊ m /, [1] French: [ʒø d(ə) pom]; originally spelled jeu de paulme; lit. ' palm game '), nowadays known as real tennis, (US) court tennis or (in France) courte paume, is a ball-and-court game that originated in France.
French developed the verb baller, and the noun bal for the event—from where it swapped into languages like English or German—and bailar, the Spanish and Portuguese verbs for 'to dance' (although all three Romance languages also know danser, danzar, and dançar respectively). Catalan uses the same word, ball, for the dance event.
Bal-musette is a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was eventually replaced by the accordion , on which a variety of waltzes, polkas, and other dance styles were played.
The French equivalent to the English meaning is "fard à joues"; 2) in Canadian football, a rouge is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return or kick the ball out of its end zone. séance
La soule, later choule (French: chôle), is a traditional team sport that originated in Normandy and Picardy. The ball, called a soule, could be solid or hollow and made of either wood or leather. Leather balls would be filled with hay, bran, horse hair or moss. Sometimes the balls had woolen pompons. [1]