couvade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French couvade (“brooding”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
couvade (countable and uncountable, plural couvades)
- A practice among some peoples, such as the Basques, of the husband of a woman in the last stages of pregnancy taking to bed, avoiding certain foods, or imitating other behaviours of a pregnant woman.
- Sympathetic pregnancy: the involuntary sympathetic experience of the husband of symptoms of his wife's pregnancy, such as weight gain or morning sickness.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
couvade f (plural couvades)
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Further reading[edit]
- “couvade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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