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Couvade

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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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Couvade'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/couvade.html. 1828.
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