Definitions for couvades

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couvades cou·vade

Spelling: [koo-vahd; French koo-vad]

IPA: /kuˈvɑd; French kuˈvad/

Couvades is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in couvades (acdeosuv).

Definitions for couvades

noun

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.

Origin of couvades

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.

Examples for couvades

The people called "Gold Tooth," in the confines of Burmah, are couvades.