couched
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Searchable Lemmata: cuché (AF), couched (ME), couched (MdE).
Alternate Forms: cowched, cowchide, couchide, y-cowchud, couching.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(psp.)
Decoration;
overlaid or set with gold, jewels, or the like; lined, decorated or adorned (with couch work); a textile which has been decorated by couching. Also (of jewels), set, inlaid.(ante 1300 still in current use)
3. Scho come in a veluet ... Alle of palle-werke [vr. pall-work] fyne, Cowchide with newyne, Furrede with ermyne And couerde [variant MS Cmb Ff.1.6 reads: overt] with pryde ... Anerlud [read: anurled; Thrn: ffurede] with ermyn
Heroic, Romance.
[MED Degrev. ((Thrn) 645-647) circa 1440]
Sex: N/A Use: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, From the ME verb couchen (to couch) and from AF/Old French coucher (to lie; to place; etc.). Though the gerund couching (used as a modern technical term for embroidering with couch-work) did exist in the fifteenth century, it is not specifically attested in the decorative or garment production sense (see MED s.v.).
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