Coulisse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A grooved timber in which something slides.
  • n. A section of stage scenery placed in a wing of a theatre.
  • n. The space between such pieces of scenery, through which an actor can make an entrance or exit.
  • n. A backstage area in a theater.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides
  • n. a side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
  • n. One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.
  • n. A fluting in a sword blade.
  • n. The outside stock exchange, or “curb market,” of Paris.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A piece of channeled or grooved timber, as one of the slides in which the side scenes of a theater run, the upright post of a flood-gate or sluice, etc. See cullis.
  • n. Hence One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.
  • n. A flute or groove on the blade of a sword.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a flat situated in the wings
  • n. a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    flat    timber