| 单词 | couvade |
| 释义 | couvade /kooh vahd"/; Fr. /kooh vannd"/, n. a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, 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. [1860-65; < F (now obs.), lit., a hatching, sitting on eggs, equiv. to couv(er) to hatch ( < L cubare to lie down) + -ade -ADE1; cf. COVEY] |
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