couche

See also: couché

French

Etymology

Deverbal from coucher.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuʃ/
  • (file)

Noun

couche f (plural couches)

  1. (literary) bed (place for sleeping)
    partager sa couche avec quelqu’unto share one's bed with someone
  2. nappy/diaper
    Synonym: (Louisiana) drapeau
  3. coat (of paint)
  4. layer (of soil, snow etc.)
  5. (chiefly in the plural) childbirth
    • 1798, Rétif de La Bretonne, chapter 38, in L’Anti-Justine:
      Nous devînmes grosses toutes trois à la fois ; il nous déclara qu’il ne nous le mettrait plus qu’après nos couches et l’allaitement.
      All three of us grew big at the same time; he told us that he would no longer stick it in us until after we had given birth and finished breast-feeding.
  6. (chemistry) shell

Derived terms

Verb

couche

  1. inflection of coucher:
    1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French couche, from couchier (whence couchen).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuːtʃ(ə)/, /ˈtʃuːtʃ(ə)/

Noun

couche (plural couches)

  1. A bed (flat piece of furniture for sleeping on).
    1. A movable or portable bed.
    2. A bed or sleeping spot prepared for an animal.
  2. (rare) A bedroom; the room where one sleeps in.
  3. (rare) A room or abode where an animal sleeps; a den.
  4. (rare) A stand or platform.
  5. (rare) A table covered by a piece of fabric.
  6. (rare) A bump or lump.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: couch
  • Scots: cooch, cootch
  • Welsh: cwtsh
References

Verb

couche

  1. Alternative form of couchen

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

couche f (plural couches)

  1. (Jersey) couch
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