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1. (n.) couvade
a practice among some peoples, as the Basques, in which an expectant father takes to bed in an enactment of the birth and subjects himself to various pregnancy taboos.
Etymology: (1860–65; < F (now obs.), lit., a hatching, sitting on eggs =couv(er) to hatch (< L cubāre to lie down) +-ade -ade1; cf. covey)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) couvade
a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child
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1. (noun) couvade
a custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. couvade
a custom among certain races of low culture in which a father before and after childbirth takes upon himself the duties and cares of the mother.
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