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Word: Couvade
Speech Type: Noun
mid 19th century: French, from couver ‘to hatch’, from Latin cubare ‘lie down’. The adoption of the term in French was due to a misunderstanding of the phrase faire la couvade ‘sit doing nothing’, used by earlier writers
kuːˈvɑːd
the custom in some cultures in which a man takes to his bed and goes through certain rituals when his child is being born, as though he were physically affected by the birth.
Short Definition:custom in some cultures in which man takes to his bed and goes through certain rituals when his child is being born
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