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Nov 30, 2009
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cou•vade



Pronunciation: (kOO-väd'; Fr. kOO-vad'), [key]
—n.
a practice among some peoples, as the Basques of Spain, in which a man, immediately preceding the birth of his child, takes to his bed in an enactment of the birth experience and subjects himself to various taboos usually associated with pregnancy.

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