Couvade

[ku:'vɑ:d]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child.

校對:梅勒妮--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

校對:卢埃林

解釋/意思:

n. a custom among savages in many parts of the world for the father to take to his bed at the birth of a child and submit to certain restrictions of food &c.

手打:柴门霍夫