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

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Historical Examples of 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

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