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Couvade
Webster's Dictionary
(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.