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bulle

bubble

noun BOOL Rare

Also means

speech bubble (comics)

Usage Note

Bulle covers soap bubbles, financial bubbles, and the speech balloons in comic strips (bandes dessinées). In the BD tradition France is proud of, every character's words appear in a bulle. The phrase bulle spéculative ('speculative bubble') is standard in economic journalism.

Examples

"L'enfant souffle des bulles de savon."

Natural Translation

The child blows soap bubbles.

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