main course

1. (Cookery) the principal dish of a meal

2. (Nautical Terms) nautical a square mainsail

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main′ course′

a square mainsail.

[1505–15]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	main course - the principal dish of a meal entree course - part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal" plate - a main course served on a plate; "a vegetable plate"; "the blue plate special"
	2.	main course - a square mainsail mainsail - the lowermost sail on the mainmast

Translations

طَبَقٌ رَئِيسِيّ

hlavní jídlo

hovedret

pääruoka

glavno jelo

メインコース

주 요리

huvudrätt

อาหารมื้อหลัก

ana yemek

món chính

主菜

main course

n (Culin) → piatto principale, piatto forte, secondo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

main course

→ طَبَقٌ رَئِيسِيّ hlavní jídlo hovedret Hauptgericht κύριο πιάτο plato fuerte pääruoka plat principal glavno jelo portata principale メインコース 주 요리 hoofdgerecht hovedrett danie główne prato principal основное блюдо huvudrätt อาหารมื้อหลัก ana yemek món chính 主菜

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(Poniatowski's action against Utitsa, and Uvarov's on the right flank against the French, were actions distinct from the main course of the battle.) So the battle of Borodino did not take place at all as (in an effort to conceal our commanders' mistakes even at the cost of diminishing the glory due to the Russian army and people) it has been described.

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On the following morning they abandoned the main course of the Spanish River, and taking a northwest direction for eight miles, came upon one of its little tributaries, issuing out of the bosom of the mountains, and running through green meadows, yielding pasturage to herds of buffalo.

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Veer again, my hearts, and bring her to try with the main course!"

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This latter case is remarkable, as the electric fluid must have turned back at the acute angle of 26 degs., to the line of its main course. Besides the four tubes which I found vertical, and traced beneath the surface, there were several other groups of fragments, the original sites of which without doubt were near.

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They told us they expected to have seen the Bahama Islands, but were then driven away again to the south-east, by a strong gale of wind at NNW., the same that blew now: and having no sails to work the ship with but a main course, and a kind of square sail upon a jury fore-mast, which they had set up, they could not lie near the wind, but were endeavouring to stand away for the Canaries.

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