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单词 coulisse
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coulissen.

Brit. /kuːˈliːs/, U.S. /kuˈlis/
Etymology: < French coulisse, substantive use of feminine of coulis, in Old French couleïs = Provençal coladitz flowing < Latin type *cōlātīcius, < cōlāre in Romanic to flow.
1. A groove or channel in which a sluice-gate or movable partition slides up and down.
ΚΠ
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Coulisse, a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Coulisse, a grooved piece of timber. A pair of battens, or a groove in which a sluice-gate moves up and down.
2. One of the side scenes of the stage in a theatre; also the space between them, the wings.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides
side-scene1675
side wing1698
slips1771
prompt sidec1782
wing1790
side-slip1808
coulisse1819
prompt corner1872
tormentor1886
P1901
1819 H. Busk Vestriad v. 81 And whistling through the long coulisses roar With blustering threats behind the side stage door.
1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead II. ii. i. 71 The gossip of the coulisses.
figurative.1856 Sat. Rev. 2 265/1 Those experienced in the coulisses of the political and religious world.
3. The body of outside dealers on the Paris Stock Exchange; similar dealers in other stock exchanges in provincial France and elsewhere; also, the place where they deal. Also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker > type of > body of
coulisse1887
curb1903
marzipan set1984
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 557/2 The Bourse now consists of two distinct bodies, known as the parquet and the coulisse... The coulisse are the outside dealers or brokers, but..these comprise firms of solid standing, bankers, and arbitrage houses.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 933/2 A portion of the bourse may be railed off to which only agents de change have the right of entry, the rest of the bourse being known as the coulisse.
1930 Economist 31 May 1217/2 Similarly, the new scale of Coulisse brokers' commission rates..is regarded.
1930 Economist 7 June 1280/1 All this..is being repeated..in the ‘coulisses’ of the Bourse [in Turkey].
1965 F. E. Perry & F. R. Ryder Thomson's Dict. Banking (ed. 11) 175/2 The unofficial dealers from the Coulisse.
4. A corridor; also figurative, as a place ‘behind the scenes’ (cf. corridor n. 4).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > passage or chamber
secretaryc1440
priest's hole1660
thalamus1850
serdab1877
coulisse1903
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > passage or corridor > [noun]
alley1363
tresance1428
passagea1525
gallery1541
trance1545
through-passage1575
lobby1596
passageway?1606
conduit1624
gangway1702
vista1708
glidec1710
aisle1734
gallery1756
corridor1814
traverse1822
heck1825
rotunda1847
scutchell1847
zaguan1851
aisleway1868
pend1893
dogtrot1901
fairway1903
dog run1904
dog walk1938
walkout1947
coulisse1949
1903 A. Bennett Truth about Author xv. 195 His knowledge of the coulisses of the various arts is wonderful.
1949 I. Deutscher Stalin v. 145 Stalin continued to do his job in the twilight of the coulisse.
1958 Spectator 31 Jan. 138/2 Gathering remunerative rumours in ministerial coulisses.
1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 207/1 Foreign politics is reduced here to the tittle-tattle of the coulisses.
1968 ‘D. Torr’ Treason Line 40 The real business of the conference would begin..in the coulisses.

Derivatives

couˈlissier n. one who deals on the coulisse.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker > type of
agency broker1827
short1849
shunter1888
taker1899
coulissier1910
1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 308/1 The name coulissier was thus given to unauthorized agents de change, or ‘outside brokers’ who..were finally given a recognized status in 1901.
1911 F. W. Hirst Stock Exchange iii. 89 Such securities..often are dealt in on the coulisse, which may be described as the curb market, so called because in former times the bankers and coulissiers thronged a narrow passage called La Coulisse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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