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  • noun Plural form of couch.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of couch.

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Examples

  • Who cares what language McCain couches it in – he capitulated!

    McCain Ad Reaches Out to Hispanics - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • For swank décor, check out Jan jangeorge.com, a furniture shop that carries dreamy stark-white couches from the Italian line

    NYT > Home Page By SARAH WILDMAN 2011

  • I think the reason the photographs don’t show people ON the couches is so you can see that they’re couches!

    GRASS COUCHES HIT THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO | Inhabitat 2006

  • On the wall opposite the couches is a day bed that could be used for sitting or for sleeping.

    A Prayer to the Porcelain God Hugh Barlow 2011

  • Local friends and visiting friends, drinks in the lounge at Casa Del Mar which is to say couches, fireplace, cozy, and a heated game of Apples to Apples.

    Archive 2009-01-01 tannaz 2009

  • On one of the couches was a gown, half-embroidered, waiting for Valerie to return to it:

    Valerie Mann's Fortunes weakyknee 2009

  • On one of the couches was a gown, half-embroidered, waiting for Valerie to return to it:

    Archive 2009-06-01 weakyknee 2009

  • Local friends and visiting friends, drinks in the lounge at Casa Del Mar which is to say couches, fireplace, cozy, and a heated game of Apples to Apples.

    Items of Note tannaz 2009

  • Close under the sloping roof stood a narrow bed, the sight of which with its white coverlet made me shiver, so vividly it recalled the couches in the chamber of death.

    Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864

  • But this year quite a few seem to be doubling as metaphorical couches, which is to say a space in which either screenwriters or those whose material they're adapting (and sometimes both) can work through various personal issues.

    Variety.com 2009

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