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cursour

cursour noun: courser.

Noun

cursour (plural cursours)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) Courser.
    • Now lerges of my Lord Bothwell, The quilk infredome dois excell; He gaif to me a cursour gray, Worth all this sort that I with mell, For lerges of this new-yeir day.1770, George Bannatyne, Sir David Dalrymple, Ancient Scottish Poems, page 192
    • In one bloody foray the M'Gregors slew forty of Sir Duncan's brood mares in the Cosche of Glenurchy, and at the same time a blood horse,—“ ane fair cursour sent to him from the Prince out of London.1855, Cosmo Innes, The Black Book of Taymouth

Forms of cursour

pluralcursours

Questions about cursour

What does cursour mean?
Cursour means courser.
What part of speech is cursour?
Cursour is a noun.
What is the plural of cursour?
The plural of cursour is cursours.

Words near cursour in the dictionary

  1. cursorious
  2. cursorjacking
  3. cursorless
  4. cursors
  5. cursory
  6. cursour
  7. cursours
  8. curst
  9. curstest
  10. curstly
  11. curstness

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