coulee
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- noun
- /kuːˈleɪ/
- Specialized
- "It's a long walk to the coulee," she remarked.
Examples
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Fox Eyes, the leader, had decided to await the return of the wolf scouts at the mouth of the coulee.
Academic text (1990) -
The rutted track rose steeply along one side of a coulee whose tumbling water Buck could only hear, for it was masked by a thick scrub of willow.
Fiction book (1998) -
At this moment in the Coulee Country, life seems to be holding its breath.
Fiction book (2002) -
The three scouts rode right up over the rise, then down through the coulee.
Fiction book (2000) -
"Shivering, I started across the ford, though I knew that death lay up the coulee."
Fiction book (1995) -
They'd found most of them down along the coulee ditch.
Fiction book (2000) -
Fifty yards below, the herd grazed along a verdant coulee.
Fiction book (1996) -
Parched brown earth was cut through by coulees of still deeper brown, with bits of mica sparkling on their dry banks.
Fiction book (1992) -
We hike through fields to the sloping coulees of the Snake River Canyon.
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The best big-game opportunities are found in the coulees that fracture outward in long fingers from the lakeshore.
Synonyms
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A deep, narrow valley with very steep sides often made by a river
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A deep narrow valley with steep sides made by a river
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A deep narrow valley with steep rocky sides, often with a river
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A deep narrow valley with very steep sides
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A small deep valley with steep sides
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A small deep valley between hills, often found in southern England
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Etymology
Coulee comes from the French word coulée and the verb couler, which mean 'to flow'. So a coulee is a place where water or lava once 'flowed', leaving a deep, often dry valley.