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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cou·vade /kuˈvɑd/
 擬娩

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 cou·vade /kuˈvɑd/ 名詞
 擬娩

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cou·vade n.  A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
    The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days.   --Tylor.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 couvade
      n : a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a
          pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the
          child