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English
Pronunciation
Noun
courses
- plural of course
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
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of courser
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
- plural of cours