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Showing words for COUVADE using the English dictionary
7 Letter Words for Couvade
couvade
5 Letter Words for Couvade
avoue, caved, coude, couve, coved, douce, vacuo
4 Letter Words for Couvade
aced, cade, cave, cavu, coda, code, coed, coua, coud, coue, cove, cuda, cued, cuve, dace, dave, deco, deva, doua, douc, dove, duce, ecad, ecod, educ, euda, odea, uvae, uvea, vade, veau, veda, voce
3 Letter Words for Couvade
ace, adc, ade, ado, adv, aud, ave, avo, cad, cav, ceo, cod, cud, cue, cva, dae, dao, dau, dca, dea, dec, dev, doa, doc, doe, duc, due, duo, ead, eau, eco, ecu, edo, oad, oca, oda, ode, oud, ova, uca, udo, uva, vac, vae, vau, voc, voe
Definitions for Couvade
[1] a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.
[2] anthropol a custom in certain cultures of treating the husband of a woman giving birth as if he were bearing the child
Words nearby Couvade
couthie, coutil, couture, couturier, couturière, couvade, couvade syndrome, couvelaire uterus, couvert, couzin, coué
Origin of Couvade
1860–65; < French (now obsolete), literally, a hatching, sitting on eggs, equivalent to couv(er ) to hatch (< Latin cubāre to lie down) + -ade -ade1; cf. covey
Word origin for Couvade
C19: from French, from couver to hatch, from Latin cubāre to lie down