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‖ couchee|kuʃe|
Also 7–8 -chée, 8 -ché; rarely coucher.
[a. F. couché, variant of coucher (Littré, Coucher n. 1) lying down, going to bed (subst. use of coucher inf.: see couch v.1]
1. An assembly of company in the evening; an evening reception.
Cf. F. le coucher du roi, or simply le coucher, the reception which preceded the king's going to bed; petit coucher the interval between this reception and the king's actual retirement, during which he saw only his household officers or other privileged persons.
1676G. Etherege Man of Mode iv. i, I was coming late from Whitehall after the King's Couchée. 1679Crowne Ambit. Statesman ii. 28 Almost at all his Levyes and his Couchees. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) II. 251 The Duke's levees and couchées were so crowded that the anti-chambers were full. 1719Mem. Lewis XIV, v. 56 At the Queen's Coucher, where the King was. 1776Harris Let. in Private Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 350, I attended the three Couchés last night of the Speaker, Lord Mansfield and the Chancellor. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. ix, Pompous ceremonials..Royal Drawing-rooms, Levees, Couchees.
†2. An obeisance. Obs.
1691New Discov. Old Intreague xxi, Bend with aukward Couchees to the Throne. |