bales

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A fairly unique element of Sory’s practice were the bals poussières, or “dust balls,” that he used to throw in the countryside outside Bobo in the nineteen-sixties and seventies.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2018

Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion bands from riverside bals musettes, whispery the riverside dingles with the billing & cooing of pic-necking couples.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet she has often slipped out with him to the "bals de minuit."

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard

The wife of Lewin Murdock hopes ere long to be among them—once more a c�lebrit�, as she was in the Bois de Boulogne, and the bals of the demi-monde.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne

Every one who could pay the large fee of admission to these bals a la victime were permitted to enter.

From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)