Lexicographical Neighbors of Couloirs
Literary usage of Couloirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ascent of Mount S' Elias...Alaska by Filippo de Filippi, Vittorio Sella (1900)
"... seamed with deep ice couloirs, crested with terrific ridges and with overhanging
glaciers which apparently cling to sheer walls of rock. ..."
2. Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-'69 by Edward Whymper (1872)
"couloirs look prodigiously steep when seen from the front, and, so viewed, ...
Snow, however, does actually lie at steeper angles in couloirs than in any ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1869)
"The longest couloirs are used with the largest class of dredging machine. ...
The shorter couloirs are placed on the dredging machine itself, ..."
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