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Couvade is a term which was coined by anthropologist E.B. Tylor in 1865 to refer to certain rituals fathers in several cultures adopt during pregnancy. The term `couvade` is borrowed from French (where it is derived from the verb couver `to brood, hatch`); the use in the modern sense derives from a misunderstanding of an earlier idiom faire la...
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symptoms of pregnancy suffered by the father
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• (n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
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(from French couver, `to hatch`), the custom of the father going to bed at the birth of his child and simulating the symptoms of labour and ... [3 related articles]
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Custom in some societies where a man behaves as if he were about to give birth when his child is being born - including feeling or appearing to feel real pa ...
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A primitive custom in certain cultures in which a man develops labour pains while his wife is in labour and then submits to the same postpartum purification rites and taboos. ... Origin: Fr. Couver, to hatch ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Custom in some cultures where expectant fathers experience symptoms of pregnancy and labour
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Cou`vade' (kō`vȧd')
noun [ French, from
couver . See
Covey .] A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill. « The world-wide custom of the
couvade , where at childbirth the husba...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kū-vahd′ Definitions: 1. A custom in certain cultures in which a man develops labor pains while his wife is in labor and then submits to the same postpartum purification rites and taboos.
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Occurs when the expectant father experiences some of the same symptoms of pregnancy that the woman has experienced. Generally, the symptoms begin during the first trimester and gradually become more intense as the pregnancy progresses. Symptoms include nausea, back ache, labor pains and a growing waistline. Synonym(s): Sympathetic Pregnancy
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Couvade is a custom prevalent in ancient as well as modern times among some of the aboriginal races in all parts of the world. After the birth of a child the father takes to bed, and receives the food and compliments usually given elsewhere to the mother. The custom was observed, according to Diodorus, among the Corsicans; and Strabo notices it amo...
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n] - 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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noun 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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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.
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