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coulis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kuːˈliː/
  • /ˈkuːli/
  • /ˈkuːliz/ plural "coulis"
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /kuːˈliːz/ plural "coulis"

Etymology

Borrowed from French coulis.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) A thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish.
    • Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378:

Forms

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coulis Number=Plur lexicographic
coulises Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

coulee