couché
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of couché
1720–30; < French, past participle of coucher to lay down. See couch
Example Sentences
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“We think at this stage Couche remains in the box seat, but this situation looks to have plenty left in it to run,” RBC analyst Ben Wilson said in a note on Wednesday.
From Reuters
Sotheby's handled 2018's most expensive painting, Amedeo Modigliani's Nu couché, which sold for $157.2m.
From BBC
His provocations first expanded significantly beyond the pages of Le Figaro in 2006, when the TV presenter Laurent Ruquier asked him to be a panelist on his new Saturday-evening talk show, “On N’est Pas Couché.”
From New York Times
Painted in 1917 when the first world war was changing the social power of women, Nu Couché purportedly reflects that revolutionary moment as a woman lying with her back to us turns her head to look boldly out of the painting.
From The Guardian
Nu Couché demonstrates that beautifully, for it is based on Ingres’ Grande Odalisque, painted in 1814.
From The Guardian
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