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Webster 1913 Edition
Couvade
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Couˊvade′
(koōˊvȧd′)
, Noun.
[F., fr.
couver
. See Covey
.] A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
The world-wide custom of the
couvade
, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days. Tylor.