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couples

Terminology once used to designate a pair of rafters.

Couples

group of ten husbands sleep with each others’ wives. [Am. Lit.: Weiss, 108]

See : Adultery

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No references found			Marriage was as yet in a rude state, and couples had a way of quarrelling and separating. Before Adam by London, Jack View in context He knew young married couples in all their varieties:--The couples who try to behave as if they had been married for many years; the couples who attempt no concealment, and take advice from competent authorities about them. Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context			couplant Couple couple roof couple-close coupled antenna coupled arcade coupled circuits coupled column coupled columns coupled engine coupled field vectors coupled harmonic oscillators coupled modes Coupled Oscillations coupled oscillators coupled pilasters coupled reaction coupled reactions coupled roof Coupled System coupled systems coupled transistors coupled wave coupled windows coupler couples Couplet Coupling coupling agent coupling aperture coupling capacitor coupling coefficient coupling constant Coupling Facility coupling hole Coupling Loop coupling pin coupling probe coupling slot Coupon cour d'honneur Cour de Lion Cour DHonneur Cour, Jacques Courant condition Courant, Ernest D. Courant, Richard Courante Courantyne Courantyne River Courbet			Coupled-Channel Reactance Matrix Coupled-Cluster Coupled-Cluster Effective Hamiltonian Coupled-Cluster Many-Electron Theory Coupled-Cluster Polarization Propagator Approximation Coupled-Cluster Singles and Doubles Coupled-Electron-Pair Approximation - Variational Coupled-Electron-Pair Approximation with Second Variational Coupled-Electron-Pair Approximation with Single and Double Excitations Coupled-Line Composite Right/Left-Handed Coupled-Mode Theory Coupled-Pair Approximation Coupled-Pair Functional Coupled-Pair Functional with Double Excitation Coupled-Perturbed Coupled-Cluster coupledom coupledom coupledom coupledom Couplement Couplement coupler coupler coupler coupler Coupler Cut Through Coupler of an organ Coupler Power Ratio Couplers Couplers couples Couples 2 Couples Couples and Family Therapy Couples Association of Sports Tournaments Couples for Christ Couples for Christ Youth Couples match Couples of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts Couples of the San Francisco Bay Area couples therapy couples therapy couples therapy couples therapy couples up couples up couples up couples up couples' therapy Couplest Couplest Couplest couplet couplet couplet Couplet poem Couplet poem Couplet poem Couplets Couplets Couplets coupling

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