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

  • 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.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • “I believe you picture every woman simply as a female, une couveuse,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • 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.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • "I believe you picture every woman simply as a female, _une couveuse, _" said Stepan Arkadyevitch.

    Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869

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