couchee

See also: couchée

English

Etymology

French couché (“a sleeping place”), from coucher. See couch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈʃeɪ/

Noun

couchee (plural couchees)

1. (obsolete) A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.
   • 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     None of her sylvan subjects made their court,
     Levees and couchees passed without resort.

   • 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →OCLC:

     The duke's levees and couchees were so crowded that the antechambers were full.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “couchee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)