couloirs

Noun

couloir (plural couloirs)

1. A steep gorge along a mountainside.
   • Those deep, dark slots in a mountain known as couloirs are often the most obvious routes of ascent.1978, Yvon Chouinard, Climbing Ice, page 145
2. (rare) A corridor or passage.
   • It was a hole, in the fence, a large irregular hole, caused by numberless winds, numberless rains, or by a boar, or by a bull, flying, pursuing, a wild boar, a wild bull, blind with fear, blind with rage, or who knows perhaps with carnal desire, crashing at this point, through the fence, weakened...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC