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单词 couvade
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
cou•vade  (ko̅o̅ väd′; Fr. ko̅o̅ vad′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Anthropologya practice among some peoples in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
  • Latin cubāre to lie down) + -ade -ade1; compare covey
  • French (now obsolete), literally, a hatching, sitting on eggs, equivalent. to couv(er) to hatch (
  • 1860–65

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
couvade /kuːˈvɑːd; French: kuvad/ n
  1. a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
Etymology: 19th Century: from French, from couver to hatch, from Latin cubāre to lie down
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