单词 | coulisse |
释义 | coulissen. 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. 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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