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coulises

coulises is the plural of coulis.

Meaning of coulis

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

Questions about coulises

What is coulises the plural of?
Coulises is the plural of coulis.

Words near coulises in the dictionary

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

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