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Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.

poule (plural poules)

  1. A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut. [from 1920s]

    • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 40:

      It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.

    • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 369:

      ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’

poule (plural poules)

  1. (fencing) Alternative form of pool
  2. Obsolete form of pool (in various senses)

From Latin pulla.

poule f (plural poules)

  1. hen

poule

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of poulit

Borrowed from French poule.

  • IPA(key): /puːl/
  • Hyphenation: pou‧le

poule m (plural poules)

  1. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus.

poule f (plural poules)

  1. hen (female chicken)

    Ma poule vient de pondre un œuf.

    My hen has just laid an egg.
  2. (slang) chick, bird (woman)

Uncertain.

poule f (plural poules)

  1. (card games) pool
  2. pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)

From Old French poule, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus (“rooster”).

poule f (plural poules)

  1. (Jersey) hen

From Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus.

poule f (plural poules)

  1. hen (female chicken)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (poule, supplement)

poule f (plural poules)

  1. pool stage