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3 examples of couvade in sentences
COUVADE´ (2 syl.), a man who takes the place of his wife when she is in child-bed.
The people called "Gold Tooth," in the confines of Burmah, are couvades.
COUVADE, a custom among certain races of low culture in which a father before and after childbirth takes upon himself the duties and cares of the mother.