seek one's virtuous couch

English

Verb

seek (one's) virtuous couch (third-person singular simple present seeks one's virtuous couch, present participle seeking one's virtuous couch, simple past and past participle sought one's virtuous couch)

  1. To go to bed: to lie down to sleep.
    • c. 1891, Fergus Hume, chapter 13, in When I Lived in Bohemia‎:
      "If he does not love her," I murmured to myself, as I sought my virtuous couch, "she must love him […] ."
    • 1956, Erle Stanley Gardner, chapter 14, in The Case of the Lucky Loser:
      After a while Dorla went out. She said she had to go home and let Ted know she was seeking her virtuous couch.
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