couchant
English
Etymology
From Middle English couchant, from Middle French couchant.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
couchant (not comparable)
- (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- 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.
- The dogs, with eager yelp,
- 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?
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
Translations
lying with belly down; crouching
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represented as crouching with the head raised
French
Pronunciation
Verb
couchant
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle French couchant, from Old French couchant.
Pronunciation
Noun
couchant
Descendants
- English: couchant
References
- “cǒuchant (ppl.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.
Middle French
Verb
couchant (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)
Adjective
couchant m (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)
Old French
Verb
couchant
Adjective
couchant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular couchant)
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