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Noun

1. couvade

a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Couvade

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noun
anthropology
a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child

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Couvade

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noun
a custom of some societies, as the Carib Indians, in which the father of a child just born engages in certain rites, such as resting in bed, as if he had borne the child

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Couvade

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n.
A practice in certain cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child.

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