couvent

couver

  1. to brood (an egg)
  2. (figuratively) to coddle, pamper, mollycoddle
  3. (figuratively) to plot, hatch, scheme

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ku.vɑ̃/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French cuvent, covent, cuvenz, from Latin conventus. Doublet of convent.

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