coarse a EDD ~ a 2. Of the weather, rough, stormy; DIRTY (P 98-57).
   1895 J A Folklore viii, 37 A stormy day is coarse. 1909 BROWNE 64 The day is too 'coarse' (unfit) for fishing. 1924 ENGLAND 65 Black clouds of ill augury began to stream across the sky. The wind grew 'coarse'; presently deluges of rain drowned the world.

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