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English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôsʹĭz, IPA(key): /ˈkɔːsɪz/
- (General American) enPR: kôrsʹĭz, IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹsɪz/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōrsʹĭz, IPA(key): /ˈko(ː)ɹsɪz/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈkoəsɪz/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪz, (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oːɹsɪz, (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) -oəsɪz
- Hyphenation: courses
Noun
courses
Noun
courses pl (plural only)
- (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.”
Verb
courses
- third-person singular simple present indicative of course
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French
Verb
courses
Noun
courses f
- (plural only) shopping, usually for groceries, rarely for clothes.
- Je vais faire les courses, je reviens dans une heure. (see also faire les courses)
- plural of course
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Middle English
Noun
courses
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