Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brooder.
- noun An apparatus for the preservation of infants prematurely born.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.
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Examples
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One month after birth, through the good offices of the wet-nurse and M. Villemin, who attended the child and who invented a "couveuse" for the occasion, it measured 38 cm. long.
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“I believe you picture every woman simply as a female, une couveuse,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch.
Anna Karenina 2003
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One month after birth, through the good offices of the wet-nurse and M. Villemin, who attended the child and who invented a ` ` couveuse '' for the occasion, it measured 38 cm. long.
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"I believe you picture every woman simply as a female, _une couveuse, _" said Stepan Arkadyevitch.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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