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noun - a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child
A practice in certain non-Western cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child.
noun - a primitive birth ritual
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| A practice in certain cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child. |
| a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child |
| The custom in some cultures in which a man takes to his bed and goes through certain rituals when his child is being born, as though he were physically affected by the birth. |
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Couvade is a term which was coined by anthropologist E.B. Tylor in 1865 to refer to certain rituals in several cultures that fathers adopt during pregnancy. * Couvade can be traced to Ancient Egypt as a "sacred birth custom, of when a child is born, the man experiences the ritual of "labor" in which he takes to his bed, and undergoes periods of fasting and purification, and the observance of certain taboos".The term "couvade" is borrowed from French (where it is derived from the verb couver "to brood, hatch"); the use in the modern sense derives from a misunderstanding of an earlier idiom faire la couvade, which meant "to sit doing nothing."An example of couvade is that the Cantabri people had a custom in which the father, during or immediately after the birth of a child, took to bed, complained of having labour pains, and was accorded the treatment usually shown to women during pregnancy or after childbirth. Similarly, in Papua New Guinea, fathers built a hut outside the village and mim |