couchant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English couchant, from Middle French couchant.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
couchant (not comparable)
- (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O. Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], OCLC 277545047:
- The dogs, with eager yelp,
Are struggling to be free;
The hawks in frequent stoop
Token their haste for flight;
And couchant on the saddle-bow,
With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d,
The ounce expects his liberty.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.
- There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XX
- Two figures faced each other, large, austere;
- A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast,
- An angel standing in the moonlight clear;
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91
- Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?
- (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 2:
- His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould [...].
Translations[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
couchant m (plural couchants)
Participle[edit]
couchant
Further reading[edit]
- “couchant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French couchant, from Old French couchant.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
couchant
Descendants[edit]
- English: couchant
References[edit]
- “cǒuchant, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.
Middle French[edit]
Verb[edit]
couchant (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)
Adjective[edit]
couchant m (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)
Old French[edit]
Verb[edit]
couchant
Adjective[edit]
couchant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular couchant)
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