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‖ couloir|kulwar|
[F. couloir colander, passage, lobby, the steep incline down which timber is precipitated on a mountain side:—late L. cōlātōrium, f. cōlāre, in F. couler to flow.]
A steep gorge or gully on a mountain side: first used in reference to the Alps (see quot. 1856).
1855J. D. Forbes Tour Mt. Blanc ii. 21 It descended a narrow couloir from the Aiguilles Rouges. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. i. §9. 22 note, ‘Couloir’ is a good untranslateable Savoyard word for a place down which stones and water fall in storms; it is perhaps deserving of naturalization. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. vii. 47 Up this couloir we proposed to try the ascent. |