coulisse

See also: coulissé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulisse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈliːs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

coulisse (plural coulisses)

1. A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
2. A fluting in a sword blade.
3. A side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes.

Translations

piece of timber

• Bulgarian: паз m (paz)
• Ido: kuliso (io)
• Italian: scanalatura (it) f, incavo (it) m

fluting in sword blade

• Finnish: veriura (fi)

side scene

• Armenian: հետնաբեմ (hy) (hetnabem)
• Bulgarian: кулиси (bg) pl (kulisi)
• Czech: boční kulisa f
• Finnish: lavaste (fi), kulissi (fi)
• Greek: κουίντα (el) f (kouínta)
• Ido: kuliso (io)
• Italian: quinta (it) f
• Romanian: culisă (ro) f
• Russian: кулисы (kulisy)
• Ukrainian: кулі́са f (kulísa)

Anagrams

• coulises, leucosis

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulisse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkuˈli.zə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: cou‧lis‧se

Noun

coulisse f (plural coulissen)

1. side of a stage, dressing room beside a stage, side wing

Derived terms

• coulissenlandschap

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.lis/

• France (Grenoble)

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• France (Toulouse)

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Etymology 1

From coulis.

Noun

coulisse f (plural coulisses)

1. coulisse (piece of timber)
2. side of a stage, dressing room
3. slide or rail on which a drawer or window slides

   Comme nous avons pu le voir précédemment, le tiroir se pose sur la coulisse et le stabilise à l’arrière. ― As we have seen earlier, the drawer is placed on the rail which stabilizes it in the back.

4. background

   Soudain, une voix s’éleva en coulisse. ― Suddenly a voice was heard in the background.

5. (music, lutherie, bowmaking) underslide, underslide channel

Derived terms

• coulisser
• en coulisse

Descendants

• → Catalan: colís
• → Dutch: coulisse
• → English: coulisse
• → German: Kulisse
• → Polish: kulisa
• → Crimean Tatar: kulisa
• → Hungarian: kulissza
• → Swedish: kuliss

Adjective

coulisse

1. feminine singular of coulis

Etymology 2

Verb

coulisse

1. inflection of coulisser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “coulisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.