coutrier, n.m., subsoil-plow.
coutume, n.f., custom; habit; practice, usage; ☉tax; collection of customs. Selon ma —; according to my custom. Comme de —; as usual. Avoir — de; to be accustomed to. Une fois n’est pas —; once does not constitute a habit; one swallow does not make a summer.
coutumi-er, -ère, adj., common, ordinary, customary; accustomed, used; wonted, habitual. Pays —; country governed by common law. Il est — du fait; it is not the first time he has done it; he is an old offender, an old hand.
☉coutumier, n.m., customary (book of common law).
couture, n.f., seam; sewing, stitching; scar. Rabattre les —s; to flatten the seams. Ils ont été battus à plate —; they were beaten hollow. — ouverte; (nav.) open seam.
couturer, v.a., to seam. Il a le visage couturé; his face is seamed, scarred.
couturier, n. and adj. m., (anat.) sartorious muscle; tailor’s muscle; sempster, sewer; ladies’ tailor.
couturière, n.f., dressmaker, seamstress, needle-woman.
couvage, n.m., brooding, sitting.
couvain, n.m., eggs of bees, or of bugs; breeding-cells, etc.