coulis
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkuːli/, /kuːˈliː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (plural "coulis") IPA(key): /ˈkuːliz/, /kuːˈliːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophones: coolie, coolly, coulee
Noun
[edit]coulis (usually uncountable, plural coulis or coulises)
- A thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378:
- Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French colëiz, colediz, from Vulgar Latin *colātīcius, from Latin colāre. By surface analysis, couler + -is.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]coulis (feminine coulisse, masculine plural coulis, feminine plural coulisses)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]coulis m (plural coulis)
Further reading
[edit]- “coulis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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