coucher

American  

[koo-cher, kou-] / ˈku tʃər, ˈkaʊ- /

noun

Papermaking.

1. the worker who transfers sheets of wet pulp to the couch.

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Etymology

Origin of coucher

First recorded in 1745–55; couch + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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coucher

I felt indeed each time as if I were attending the last coucher of some social sovereign.

From Some Short Stories [by Henry James] by Henry James

Go now, but come and fetch me by and by to carry me to the Louvre to the petit coucher.

From The Pretentious Young Ladies by Molière

And if any one does not take the extras, of course he is charged more:— Bain, 25 C. Pas de bain, 50 C. Cigarette dans la chambre à coucher, 10 C. pour chaque cigarette.

From Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

Men's resting-days always fall upon women's rasping-days; father and son went composedly to meet the doctor and the coucher.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

What I chiefly remember is the charming staircase of white embroidered stone, and the great salle des gardes and chambre a coucher du roi on the second floor.

From A Little Tour in France by Henry James