Noun
a square mainsail
the principal dish of a meal
Source: WordNetAs relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course. Jenny McCarthy
Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out. Sally Schneider
Josephus: I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum! Mel Brooks
Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. Bobby Flay
Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. Harold S. Kushner
Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert. John Hench