couchee

See also: couchée

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French couche (“a sleeping place”), from coucher. See couch.

Noun

couchee (plural couchees)

1. (obsolete) A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince.

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   • Bishop Burnet

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)