Citations:couch

English citations of couch

Etymology 1

Noun

1. An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person.
2. A bed, a resting-place.
   • 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, →OCLC, stanza XLVI, lines 19–22:

     [H]e and those / Shall bide eternal bedfellows / Where low upon the couch he lies / Whence he never shall arise.

3. (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
4. (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.