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单词 main course
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main course

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noun

Nautical. a square mainsail.
the principal dish or course of a meal, typically including meat or fish.

Origin of main course

First recorded in 1505–15

Words nearby main course

Mainbocher, main body, main brace, main chance, main clause, main course, main deck, main diagonal, main drag, Maine, Maine Coon
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Example sentences from the Web for main course

  • Towards midnight of the 20th June, the wind increased so much, that we had to lay our ship a-try all night under her main-course.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX.|Robert Kerr
  • The jib and flying jib were also taken in, and a little later the main-course and the mizzen-course.

    At the Fall of Port Arthur|Edward Stratemeyer

British Dictionary definitions for main course

main course

noun

the principal dish of a meal
nautical a square mainsail
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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