Meaning Of The Word Couvade
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Couvade Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Couvade?
couvade in American English
noun: 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 couvade in British English noun: a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child |
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