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cou·chette
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kuˈʃɛt
/
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noun
Railroads
.
1.
a sleeping berth in a passenger compartment that can be collapsed to form a benchlike seat for daytime use.
2.
a compartment containing such berths.
Origin:
<
French;
see
couch
,
-ette
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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couchette
(kuːˈʃɛt)
—
n
a bed in a railway carriage, esp one converted from seats
[C20: from French, diminutive of
couche
bed]
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