Couloir Definition

ko͝ol-wär
couloirs
noun
A deep mountain gorge or gully.
Webster's New World

Origin of Couloir

  • French from couler to slide, to flow coulee

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French couloir.

    From Wiktionary

Couloir Sentence Examples

  • Once there, I knew I had only the dangerous couloir to face.

  • He followed the actual top edge of the band, which led at a very slightly uphill angle into and across the big couloir.

  • We will then climb a short easy angled snow couloir before traversing right, across the face, toward a small group of seracs.

  • Access is further complicated by a hanging serac and ice couloir that regularly spew rock and ice down the approach slopes.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOU

Words Ending With

RIROIR

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Words Starting With C and Ending With R

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