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coulee
This term is highly regional, used primarily in the Western United States (especially the Pacific Northwest) and Western Canada. While it refers to a valley, it specifically evokes a deep, dry ravine or a wide, flat-bottomed valley carved by prehistoric glacial floods rather than a permanent river.
In a socio-pragmatic sense, using "coulee" instead of "valley" or "canyon" signals a specific geographic context. To a speaker in the Inland Northwest, a coulee has a distinct visual character—often steep walls with a dry or seasonally wet floor—that differs from the lush, green valleys of the East Coast or the sheer rock walls of the Grand Canyon.
It is a descriptive, neutral term used in both casual conversation among locals and in formal geological or historical descriptions of the region's landscape.
意味
例文
The hikers descended into the deep coulee to find shelter from the wind.
Look at how the water carved this coulee thousands of years ago.
The road winds through a steep coulee before reaching the town.
I wonder if there are any ancient fossils hidden in that coulee.
The settlers built their first cabins along the edge of the coulee.
We should set up camp inside the coulee for better protection.
The glacial meltwater left behind a massive coulee in this region.