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means A French lawn-bowling game where you toss metal balls underhand, feet together, trying to land closest to a small wooden target ball called the cochonnet.

from French, from Provençal 'pè tancat' meaning 'feet planted' — because unlike the older game of jeu provençal, which involved a running start, pétanque players throw from a fixed stance with both feet together in a small circle. The game crystallized in the south of France in the early 1900s, the story goes, when a player with crippling rheumatism could no longer take the traditional run-up, so the rules bent to let him stand still and throw anyway.