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† ˈcourse-a-park Obs.
Name of a country game, in which a girl called out one of the other sex to chase her.
1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iii. 19 Staid with the maides to runne at barlibreake: Or that he cours'd a parke with females fraught, Which would not runne except they might be caught. 1640G. H. Witts Recreations (N.), At course-a-park, without all doubt, He should have first been taken out By all the maids i'th town. 1675H. Teonge Diary (1825) 112 Like boys and gyrles at course-a-packe, or barly breakes. |