coulis

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/ˈkuːli//kuːˈliː//ˈkuːliz//kuːˈliːz/

noun

A thick sauce made with pureed vegetable or fruit and often used as a garnish.

OriginFrench coulis →
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Meanings

nouncoulis (usually uncountable, plural coulis or coulises)

plural coulises

  1. uncountableusuallyA 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

Origin

  1. Frenchcoulis
  2. Frenchcoulis
  3. Englishcoulis

Borrowed from French coulis.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

cooliecoollycoulee

Anagrams

Iolcus
Cite this entry
APA

coulis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coulis

MLA

“coulis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coulis. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coulis,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coulis.

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