couplement

English

Etymology

Compare Old French couplement.

Noun

couplement (countable and uncountable, plural couplements)

1. (obsolete) union; combination; a coupling; a pair
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3:

     In perfect love, devoid of hateful strife, / Allide with bands of mutuall couplement.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 21”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     Making a couplement of proud compare, / With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems, / With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare / That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

From coupler (“to couple”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.plə.mɑ̃/

Noun

couplement m (plural couplements)

1. (rare) coupling

   Synonym: couplage

   Antonym: découplement

References

• “coupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012