coucher

American  

[koo-cher, kau-] / 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

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Example Sentences

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coucher

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

I was told by the upholsterer, that he had pledged himself to milord that miladi was not to see her chambre à coucher, or dressing-room, until they were furnished.

From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

I shall be at his coucher this even.”

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

‘Cependant, coucher dehors!’ he repeated, and his voice was eloquent of terror.

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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