courses

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See also: coursés

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courses

  1. plural of course

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courses pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio, published 2007, page 201:
      Nep [catnip] is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.
    • 2008, Jack Staub, quoting Nicholas Culpeper, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 51:
      Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women's courses and to help the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.”

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courses

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of course

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courses

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of courser

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courses f

  1. (plural only) shopping, usually for groceries, rarely for clothes.
    Je vais faire les courses, je reviens dans une heure. (see also faire les courses)
  2. plural of course

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courses

  1. plural of cours