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Couch   /kaʊtʃ/   Listen
Couch

noun
1.
An upholstered seat for more than one person.  Synonyms: lounge, sofa.
2.
A flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer.
3.
A narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment.
verb
(past & past part. couched; pres. part. couching)
1.
Formulate in a particular style or language.  Synonyms: cast, frame, put, redact.  "She cast her request in very polite language"



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"Couch" Quotes from Famous Books



... no better bed to offer you," he said, "but I know you are not used to a soft couch. You must be tired from your journey. Becky will tend to your horses so you had better sleep now, that tomorrow we may start out early and visit Colonel Hawkins. He would see you before you begin work on ...
— The New Land - Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country • Elma Ehrlich Levinger
... so wondyful," she said, with her hands straight down upon the couch upon which she was sitting, and leaning forward at him, so as to seem almost as much out of drawing as a ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells
... over Bar Shalmon's eyes and he fell into a profound slumber. When he awoke it was daylight, and the boy stood by his couch. He made a sign to Bar Shalmon to follow, and through an underground passage he conducted him into the synagogue and placed him near ...
— Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends • Gertrude Landa
... did not love him. Indeed, it was ever so much better. She was glad indeed that he had recognized and praised her, and then his voice had never expressed the slightest sign of reproach. She was happy that he had found comfort in her presence beside his couch and—and had been ...
— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick
... accompanied by a cake of blood drawn from living cows. Some of the company with which he would have feasted would have been covered with cutaneous eruptions, and others would have been smeared with tar like sheep. His couch would have been the bare earth, dry or wet as the weather might be; and from that couch he would have risen half poisoned with stench, half blind with the reek of turf, and half mad with the ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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