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Couvade

noun
1.
A custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child.





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... very curious and apparently inexplicable custom, called the "Couvade," which extends from China to the Mississippi Valley; it demands "that, when a child is born, the father must take to his bed, while the mother attends to all the duties of the household." Marco Polo found the custom among the Chinese ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly


Words linked to "Couvade" :   usance, custom, usage


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