英语词汇“couvade”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

couvade

/kuːˈvɑːd

noun [mass noun]

The custom in some cultures in which a man takes to his bed and goes through certain rituals when his child is being born, as though he were physically affected by the birth.The only known cure for couvade is - birth....

But couvade, as I attempt to untangle its relation to colonialism in this essay, is a strategy re-invented for the purposes of reconciliation in narratives of Manichean allegory.
In extreme forms of couvade, the man may mimic the pain and process of childbirth and expect his wife to wait on him in the following days.

Origin

Mid 19th century: French, from couver 'to hatch', from Latin cubare 'lie down'. The adoption of the term in French was due to a misunderstanding of the phrase faire la couvade 'sit doing nothing', used by earlier writers.

单词	couvade
释义	couvade /kuːˈvɑːd / noun [mass noun] The custom in some cultures in which a man takes to his bed and goes through certain rituals when his child is being born, as though he were physically affected by the birth.The only known cure for couvade is - birth.... But couvade, as I attempt to untangle its relation to colonialism in this essay, is a strategy re-invented for the purposes of reconciliation in narratives of Manichean allegory. In extreme forms of couvade, the man may mimic the pain and process of childbirth and expect his wife to wait on him in the following days. Origin Mid 19th century: French, from couver 'to hatch', from Latin cubare 'lie down'. The adoption of the term in French was due to a misunderstanding of the phrase faire la couvade 'sit doing nothing', used by earlier writers. Rhymes Assad, aubade, avant-garde, backyard, ballade, bard, Bernard, bombard, canard, card, charade, chard, croustade, Cunard, facade, glissade, guard, hard, ill-starred, interlard, lard, Montagnard, nard, pard, petard, pomade, promenade, regard, rodomontade, roulade, saccade, Sade, salade, sard, shard, unmarred, unscarred, yard
随便看	unremembering unremembrance unreminded unremissible unremittable unremitted unremittedly unremittent unremittently unremitting unremittingly unremittingness unremonstrant unremonstrated unremorseful unremorsefully unremorseless unremote unremovable unremovably unremoved unremunerated unremunerating unremunerative unremuneratively

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