noun. A grooved timber in which something slides.

noun. undefined

noun. A section of stage scenery placed in a wing of a theater.

noun. The space between such pieces of scenery, through which an actor can make an entrance or exit.

noun. A backstage area in a theater.

noun. A piece of channeled or grooved timber, as one of the slides in which the side scenes of a theater run, the upright post of a flood-gate or sluice, etc. See cullis.

noun. Hence One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

noun. A flute or groove on the blade of a sword.

noun. A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

noun. One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

noun. A fluting in a sword blade.

noun. The outside stock exchange, or “curb market,” of Paris.

noun. a piece of timber having a groove in which something glides

noun. a side scene of the stage in a theater or the space between the side scenes.

noun. a flat situated in the wings

noun. a timber member grooved to take a sliding panel

"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)."

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