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J’aime Parisians’ strange obsession with their livers, drinking no cold beverages with ice and keeping windows closed tight to avoid les courants d’air.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 28, 2016

Now, Bathsheba had an unmarried aunt—Aunt Hessy Pendlurian we called her—that used to take her to all the parties and courants when Old John was away at sea.

From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

This healthy hankering of all classes for the open air contrasts very strongly with their imbecile terror of fresh air, or courants d'air, in a closed vehicle or under a roof.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William

At Nuremberg, too, the scramble to get something to eat was funny, as there were two courants, all of us leaving Bayreuth, and just as many more arriving to take our places.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King

Selina Johns wasn't but just husband-high; turned sixteen and her hair only put up a week before, she having begged her mother's leave to twist it in plaits for the Christmas courants.

From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir