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coulis

/ˈkuːli/

coulis noun: a thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish.

Noun

coulis (usually uncountable, plural coulis or coulises)

  1. (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 of coulis

pluralcoulis
pluralcoulises

Plural of coulis: coulis or coulises

Origin of coulis

Borrowed from French coulis.

Questions about coulis

What does coulis mean?
Coulis means a thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish.
What part of speech is coulis?
Coulis is a noun.
How do you pronounce coulis?
Coulis is pronounced /ˈkuːli/.
What is the plural of coulis?
The plural of coulis is coulis.

Words near coulis in the dictionary

  1. couleurs
  2. Coulibaly
  3. Coulibalys
  4. coulibiac
  5. coulibiacs
  6. coulis
  7. coulises
  8. coulisse
  9. coulisses
  10. Coulls
  11. coulochemical

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