Coulisse

Thus, the break between Lumumba and UN secretary-general Hammarskjöld also plays a crucial role in the fall of the Congolese prime minister, on the one hand because it incites Lumumba to seek (openly) the support of the Soviet Union and, on the other, because it incites the United States to organize (behind the scenes) [en coulisse] active opposition to Lumumba (including the elaboration of the first plans for physical elimination). ❋ Witte, Ludo De (2002)

See trawl board anneau do coulisse du type ouvrant anillas que se pueden abrir otter trawl chalut panneaux arte de arrastre de puertas outrigger tangon tangn, botaln overhand knot noeud simple nudo llano ❋ Unknown (1983)

A few days later the July liquidation, in the official market as well as in the coulisse, was postponed until the end of August, which action proved the necessity of a period of grace. ❋ Various (N/A)

Sale in blank was absolutely forbidden, and in the coulisse business was at a standstill. ❋ Various (N/A)

Tout à coup, les deux jolies figurantes placées devant le rideau de la coulisse en écartent les plis, et Duhsanta, l'arc et les flèches à la main, paraît monté sur un char; son cocher tient les rênes; lancés à la poursuite d'une gazelle imaginaire, ils simulent par leurs gestes la rapidité de la course; leurs stances pittoresques et descriptives suggèrent à l'imagination un décor que la peinture serait impuissante à tracer. ❋ Kalidasa (N/A)

He had her entirely to himself, a privilege none of the men of fashion who were in the habit of visiting the coulisse had yet enjoyed. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Not but that he was accustomed to a certain frank female admiration; but then it was of the coulisse, and not of the cloister, with which he always persisted in associating Mrs. Decker. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

She comprehended that he was, in many respects, a younger man than many a coulisse-frequenting youth whom she had known. ❋ Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1851)

Cicero, and Catiline; how shall I change the pitiful souls of the coulisse into great men; make noble Romans out of these small pasteboard heroes of the mode? ❋ Unknown (1843)

The vast receptacle of an "atelier," where all seems small, even man, has something of the air of an Opera "coulisse"; here lie ancient garments, gilded armor, fragments of stuffs, machinery. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

From the powerful draught of air, which, coming from behind the scenes, may well be termed _vent de coulisse_, the room is as cold as the season. ❋ Francis W. Blagdon (1798)

For when the Russians aren't hogging center stage, they're busy in the coulisse. ❋ David Solway (2010)

Set in the FuoriSalone at the Milan Furniture Fair 2009, a "gorgeous coulisse provided the baroque Palazzo Visconti in the heart of Milan with a successful staging of the new bathroom collection Axor Urquiola." ❋ Unknown (2009)

“coulisse”; here lie ancient garments, gilded armor, fragments of stuffs, machinery. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But all else that belonged to the place, and indeed formed the principal part of it, was hidden behind this little dwelling as if by the side-scenes of a theatre, and only little red and green painted tower with a half broken dial beneath its peak (nothing remained of the clock itself) gave one a hint, that behind this “coulisse” something more must be hidden, a hint which was confirmed from time to time by the rising and circling of a flock of pigeons around the tower, and still more by the occasional barking of a dog. ❋ Unknown (1917)

"Clancarty has doubtless often sought me vainly for the trivial coin: some butterflies in the _coulisse_ of the playhouse will have missed my pouncet-box; but I swear there are few in Paris who would be inconsolable if Victor de Montaiglon never set foot on the _trottoir_ again. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

The coulisse and the dressing-rooms were packed by the critics and the author’s friends, beside themselves with delight. ❋ Eliot Gregory (1884)