кулиса

Borrowed from French coulisse.

• IPA^(key): [kʊˈlʲisə]

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кули́са • (kulísa) f inan (genitive кули́сы, nominative plural кули́сы, genitive plural кули́с, relational adjective кули́сный)

1. (technical) link
2. slide (of a trombone)
3. (theater, in the plural) wings, side scenes, slips, coulisses

   за кули́сами ― za kulísami ― in the wings, backstage, behind the scenes

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “кулиса”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

Borrowed from German Kulisse, from French coulisse.

кулѝса f (Latin spelling kulìsa)

1. coulisse