英和和英

名詞

couplement (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 couplements)

1. (obsolete) union; combination; a coupling; a pair
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto III, stanza 3:

     In perfect love, devoid of hateful strife, / Allide with bands of mutuall couplement.

   • 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 216596634:

     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.