cullis
English
Etymology
French coulisse (“groove”).
Noun
cullis (plural cullises)
- (architecture) A gutter in a roof.
- (architecture) A channel or groove, as for a side-scene in a theatre.
- A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for someone who is ill or infirm; also, a savoury jelly.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- When I am excellent at caudles / And cullises […] you shall be welcome to me.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cullis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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Verb
cullis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of collir