coulee
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coulee¹
- /ˈkuːli/ UK
- /ˈkuli/ Canada, US
- /ˈkʉːli/ Australia, New Zealand
Sounds like coolly · Rhymes with -uːli
Where it comes from
From French coulée (“flow”), from couler (“to flow”).
noun coulees · coulée · cooley
- A stream, especially one in the western US or Canada, generally smaller than a bayou; it may (or may not) run dry in summer, may be sluggish, shallow, and wide (forming in effect a pond or slough), or may have formerly cut a deep gulch or ravine, but at present run dry. […] Mauvaise Coulee enters Devils Lake from the north, but it cannot be said to drain the lakes with which it is connected. It is itself a long-drawn-out slough or pool which is broader at those places where it spreads out into lakes. […] the head streams or coulees of the Park, the Forest and the T
- A reach of water in a bayou that is like a slough but deeper. We were in a coulee, which is like a slough but deeper and with slushier muds at the bottom.
- A lava flow (whether molten or solidified). The edge of a coulee, or stream of solidified lava, though ordinarily a very low escarpment, is exceptionally of such size as to deserve attention in the present connection.
Coulee²
proper noun
- A rural municipality in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Coulee No. 136.
- An unincorporated community in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States.
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