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courante: the runs (diarrhea); courante (dance); courante (music)
courbarine: an oleoresin, obtained from courbaril, used to make varnishes
courbatu: aching, stiff (of muscles)
courbature: stiffness (in the muscles), ache; founder, laminitis (horse ailment)
courbaturer: to cause to ache
courbaturé: aching, stiff
courbe: curve
courbe: curved; bent (not straight)
courbe d'apprentissage: learning curve (a visualization of the progress of learning as function of experience)
courbe d'offre: supply curve
courbe de Bézier: Bézier curve
courbe de Gauss: bell curve
courbe de demande: demand curve
courbe elliptique: elliptic curve
courbe logistique: logistic curve
courber: to bend (cause to become bent); to bend (e.g. a rule); to bend (become bent); to bend; to bow, to bow down, to bend down, to bend over
courber l'échine: to bend the knee, to submit oneself, to bend down, to bow down, to kowtow
courbetien: nonstandard spelling of courbétien
courbette: bow (prostration)
courbure: curvature
courbé: bent, bowed
courbétien: Courbetian
courette: small courtyard
coureur: runner; racer; rider
coureur de dot: dowry-seeker
coureur de fond: long-distance runner
coureur de jupons: womanizer, skirt chaser
coureuse de fond: long-distance runner
courez-venez: the Louisiana Creole language
courge: marrow (UK; vegetable), vegetable marrow (UK), marrow squash (US)
courgelier: cornelian cherry
courgeron: acorn squash
courgette: courgette (UK), zucchini (Australia, Canada, US)
courir: to run; to hurry; to rush; to go
courir après: to chase, to pursue, to chase after (somebody)
courir comme un dératé: to run like a bat out of hell (to run very fast, especially when unexpectedly)
courir comme un lapin: to run like the wind; to be fit as a fiddle
courir la galipote: to go adventuring, to gallivant; to try to pick up sexual partners (usually women); to flirt, to skirt-chase
courir la gueuse: to chase skirt, to gallivant
courir la prétentaine: to chase skirt, to gallivant
courir le cotillon: to philander, to womanize, to chase skirt
courir le guilledou: to frequent disreputable places, especially during the night
courir le risque: to run the risk
courir les filles: to chase skirt
courir les jupons: to chase skirt
courir les rues: to abound, to be found in large amounts, to be widespread
courir sur le haricot: to get someone's goat, to exasperate, to annoy
courir à sa perte: to be riding for a fall, to be heading for disaster, to be on the road to ruin
courlis: curlew
couroit: archaic spelling of courait, third-person singular imperfect indicative of courir
couronne: crown (item of headgear); funereal wreath; crown (royalty in general); crown (various units of currency); crown
couronne balanique: synonym of couronne du gland
couronne de lauriers: laurel wreath
couronne du gland: corona glandis
couronnement: a coronation, crowning ceremony; any similar investiture, triumph etc.; a crest, something physically in prominent top-position; a culmination
couronner: to crown
couronner le tout: to top it off, to cap it all off
couronné: crowned
courre: to run
courriel: email (message); email (system); email address.