culchet

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin collocātum.

Pronunciation

• (Anglo-Norman, early) IPA^(key): /kulˈtʃæθ/

Participle

culchet

1. past participle of culcher

Etymology 2

From Latin collocat.

Pronunciation

• (Anglo-Norman, early) IPA^(key): /ˈkultʃəθ/

Verb

culchet

1. third-person singular present indicative of culcher (Anglo-Norman form of couchier)
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland‎^[1], lines 10–13:

     Li reis Marsilie esteit en Sarraguce. / Alez en est en un verger suz l'umbre; / Sur un perrun de marbre bloi se culchet, / Envirun lui plus de vint milie humes.

     The King Marsile was in Zaragoza. Arrived in a garden beneath the shade, he lays down on a large blonde [or blue] marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.