couche
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See also: couché
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]couche f (plural couches)
- (literary) bed (place for sleeping)
- partager sa couche avec quelqu’un ― to share one's bed with someone
- nappy/diaper
- Synonym: (Louisiana) drapeau
- coat (of paint)
- layer (of soil, snow etc.)
- (chiefly in the plural) childbirth
- 1798, Rétif de La Bretonne, chapter 38, in L’Anti-Justine:
- Nous devînmes grosses toutes trois à la fois ; il nous déclara qu’il ne nous le mettrait plus qu’après nos couches et l’allaitement.
- All three of us grew big at the same time; he told us that he would no longer stick it in us until after we had given birth and finished breast-feeding.
- (chemistry) shell
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]couche
- inflection of coucher:
Further reading
[edit]- “couche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old French couche, from couchier (whence couchen).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]couche (plural couches)
- A bed (flat piece of furniture for sleeping on).
- A movable or portable bed.
- A bed or sleeping spot prepared for an animal.
- (rare) A bedroom; the room where one sleeps in.
- (rare) A room or abode where an animal sleeps; a den.
- (rare) A stand or platform.
- (rare) A table covered by a piece of fabric.
- (rare) A bump or lump.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “cǒuche, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-19.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]couche
- Alternative form of couchen
Norman
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]couche f (plural couches)
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