couchant
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English couchant, from Middle French couchant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]couchant (not comparable)
- (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- The dogs, with eager yelp, / Are struggling to be free; / The hawks in frequent stoop / Token their haste for flight; / And couchant on the saddle-bow, / With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d, / The ounce expects his liberty.
- 1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau and William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:
- There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
- 1880, James Thomson, chapter XX, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], →OCLC:
- Two figures faced each other, large, austere; / A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast, / An angel standing in the moonlight clear; […]
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
- Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?
- (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould […]
Derived terms
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]couchant m (plural couchants)
Participle
[edit]couchant
Further reading
[edit]- “couchant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French couchant, from Old French couchant.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]couchant
Descendants
[edit]- English: couchant
References
[edit]- “cǒuchant, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.
Middle French
[edit]Verb
[edit]couchant (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)
Adjective
[edit]couchant m (feminine singular couchante, masculine plural couchans, feminine plural couchantes)
Old French
[edit]Verb
[edit]couchant
Adjective
[edit]couchant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular couchant)
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