couche

Deverbal of coucher.

• IPA^(key): /kuʃ/

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couche f (plural couches)

1. bed (any place for sleeping)
2. nappy/diaper
3. coat (of paint)
4. layer (of soil, snow etc.)
5. (chiefly in the plural) childbirth
6. (chemistry) shell

• couche d'ozone
• fausse couche
• sous-couche

couche

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of coucher
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of coucher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of coucher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of coucher
5. second-person singular imperative of coucher

• “couche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French couche, from couchier (whence couchen).

• cowche, cowch, cuche, chouche

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːtʃ(ə)/, /ˈtʃuːtʃ(ə)/

couche (plural couches)

1. A bed (flat piece of furniture for sleeping on):
   1. A moveable or portable bed.
   2. A bed or sleeping spot prepared for an animal.
2. (rare) A bedroom; the room where one sleeps in.
3. (rare) A room or abode where an animal sleeps; a den.
4. (rare) A stand or platform.
5. (rare) A table covered by a piece of fabric.
6. (rare) A bump or lump.

• couchant
• couchen
• coucher
• couchynge

• English: couch
• Scots: cooch, cootch

• “cǒuche (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-19.

From Old French couchier.

couche

1. Alternative form of couchen

couche f (plural couches)

1. (Jersey) couch