Definitions for coulisse

coulisse cou·lisse

Spelling: [koo-lees]
IPA: /kuˈlis/

Coulisse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in coulisse (ceilossu).

Definitions for coulisse

noun

  1. a timber or the like having a groove for guiding a sliding panel.
  2. Theater. the space between two wing flats, leg drops, or the like. any space or area backstage. wing flat.

Origin of coulisse

1810-20; French: groove, something that slides in a groove; see portcullis

Examples for coulisse

A saucy soubrette who might easily have just stepped from the coulisse of a Parisian theater!

Sale in blank was absolutely forbidden, and in the coulisse business was at a standstill.

Her easy confession of the garden-company opened the trying scene,—almost in the coulisse.

The same "sesame" opened to him the coulisse of the Opera and the penetralia of the Franais.

Word Value for coulisse
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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