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seek one's virtuous couch en · VERB
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To go to bed: to lie down to sleep.
After a while Dorla went out. She said she had to go home and let Ted know she was seeking her virtuous couch.
1956, Erle Stanley Gardner, chapter 14, in The Case of the Lucky Loser:"If he does not love her," I murmured to myself, as I sought my virtuous couch, "she must love him[…]."
c. 1891, Fergus Hume, chapter 13, in When I Lived in Bohemia:
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