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chichevache
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Chichevachenoun
A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
Etymology: From chiche vache
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chichevache
Bicorn and Chichevache are fabulous beasts that appear in European satirical works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Bicorn is a creature—often described as a part-panther, part-cow creature with a human-like face—that devours kind-hearted and devoted husbands and (because of their abundance) is plump and well fed. Chichevache, on the other hand, devours obedient wives and (because of their scarcity) is thin and starving.
Webster Dictionary
Chichevachenoun
a fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition
Etymology: [F. chiche lean + vache cow.]
Wikidata
Chichevache
The Chichevache is a mythological European monster fabled to feed on good women. In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this human-faced cow is perpetually starved to skin and bone due to the scarcity of obedient and faithful wives. The Bicorne or Bycorne, a counterpart to the Chichevache which fed on obedient and kind husbands, was reputedly fat and plump because of the plentiful supply of such men. Chaucer may have borrowed the French term chichifache and put it with vache to make the similar term chichevache. D. Laing Purves notes that "The origin of the fable was French; but Lydgate has a ballad on the subject. 'Chichevache' literally means 'niggardly' or 'greedy cow.'" Here is the paragraph where the word appears, in the "Clerk's Tale":
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Chichevache
a monster fabled to feed on good women, and starved, from the scarcity of them, to skin and bone, in contrast with another called Bicorn, that fed on good men, who are more plentiful, and was fat and plump.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chichevache in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chichevache in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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