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单词 couvade
释义 couvade
 /kooh vahd"/; Fr. /kooh vannd"/,  n.  
 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.
 [1860-65; < F (now obs.), lit., a hatching, sitting on eggs, equiv. to couv(er) to hatch ( < L cubare to lie down) + -ade -ADE1; cf. COVEY]
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