Meanings
nouncouplement (countable and uncountable, plural couplements)
plural couplements
- countableobsoleteuncountableunion; combination; a coupling; a pair
In perfect love, devoid of hateful strife, / Allide with bands of mutuall couplement.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31 more example
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.
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
Origin
Compare Old French couplement.
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