couplement
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare Old French couplement.
Noun[edit]
couplement (countable and uncountable, plural couplements)
- (obsolete) union; combination; a coupling; a pair
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3:
- In perfect love, devoid of hateful strife, / Allide with bands of mutuall couplement.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 21”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Making a couplement of proud compare, / With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems, / With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare / That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From coupler (“to couple”) + -ment.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
couplement m (plural couplements)
- (rare) coupling
- Synonym: couplage
- Antonym: découplement
References[edit]
- “coupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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