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couch•ing

Pronunciation: (kou'ching), [key]
—n.
1. the act of a person or thing that couches.
2. a method of embroidering in which a thread, often heavy, laid upon the surface of the material, is caught down at intervals by stitches taken with another thread through the material.
3. work so made.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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