racecourse
a current of water, as a millrace.
Origin of racecourse
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How to use racecourse in a sentence
It had rained all night and was still drizzling when I headed for the Hawthorne Race Course in suburban Cicero, Illinois.
The perfect level of the plains, particularly in Champagne, makes the ground as open as a race-course.
A large tract of this district was formerly covered by a race-course known as the hippodrome.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyHe always kept a number of race horses in training for the turf, and often matched them against others on the race course.
The Old Pike | Thomas B. SearightCould the Algonquins do a little better than this in the second half of the race-course, they would be sure of winning.
A Mortal Antipathy | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
As the quartette sped over this grand natural race-course, the whole populace of the town turned out en masse to see the race.
Cruisings in the Cascades | George O. Shields
British Dictionary definitions for racecourse
/ (ˈreɪsˌkɔːs) /
a long broad track, usually of grass, enclosed between rails, and with starting and finishing points marked upon it, over which horses are raced: Also called (esp US and Canadian): racetrack
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