Crossword-Solution: COUVADE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Couvade | n. | A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “COUVADE”
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| CUSTOM by which husband feigns illness when his wife is giving birth | 1 answer |
| PRIMITIVE custom by which husband feigns illness when his wife gives birth | 1 answer |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with COUVADE (5)
This authority also mentions that the French call husbands who have well-developed mammae "la couvade;" the Germans call male supernumerary breasts "bauchwarze," or ventral nipples.
Beginning with a scrutiny of megalithic building and sun-worship,(1) he has subsequently deduced, from evidence of common distribution, the existence of a culture-complex, including in addition to these two elements the varied practices of tattooing, circumcision, ear-piercing, that quaint custom known as couvade, head-deformation, and the prevalence of serpent-cults, myths of petrifaction and the Deluge, and finally of mummification.
There seems to be no trace of any such custom as the COUVADE, though the father observes, like the mother, certain tabus during the early months and years of the child's life, with diminishing strictness as the child grows older.
There is a very curious and apparently inexplicable custom, called the "Couvade," which extends from China to the Mississippi Valley; it demands "that, when a child is born, the father must take to his bed, while the mother attends to all the duties of the household." Marco Polo found the custom among the Chinese in the thirteenth century.
With the couvade, the practice of circumcision, unity of religious beliefs and customs, folk-lore, and alphabetical signs, language and flood legends, we array together a mass of unanswerable proofs of prehistoric identity of race.