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.

Free starter pack
Building your French vocabulary?
Get the 100 most common French words as a free PDF — one email, no spam.
Related Words
Explore French by topic