2/27/07

couvade

[French, from Old French, from 'couver', to incubate, hatch, from Latin 'cubāre', to lie down on]

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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