couplement
union; combination; a coupling; a pair
Noun
- union; 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,...
- 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...
Origin
Compare Old French couplement.