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A main course is the featured or primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses. It usually follows the entrée (lit. 'entry') course.

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In the United States and Canada (except Quebec), the main course is traditionally called an "entrée".cite-ref-1[1]cite-ref-etiquette-2-0[2]cite-ref-3[3] English-speaking Québécois follow the modern French use of the term entrée to refer to a dish served before the main course.

According to linguist Dan Jurafsky, North American usage ("entrée") comes from the original French meaning of the first of many meat courses.cite-ref-4[4]

• Full course dinner

cite-note-11. ↑ "entrée". ENTRÉE | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Cambridge Dictionary.

cite-note-etiquette-22. ↑ citerefstewart-marjabelle-young-and-elizabeth-lawrence1999Stewart, Marjabelle Young and Elizabeth Lawrence (1999). Commonsense Etiquette: A Guide to Gracious, Simple Manners for the Twenty-First Century. St. Martin's Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780312242947.

cite-note-33. ↑ "You are what you eat — and how you translate the menu". 22 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefporzucki2014Porzucki, Nina (22 September 2014). "You are what you eat—and how you translate the menu". The World from PRX. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 2024-03-11.

• citerefverg-1996Vergé, Roger (1996). The Main Course. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-83638-2. Retrieved May 25, 2017.

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