also: めおとづれ · みょうとづれ
husband and wife traveling together; married couple traveling together
Refers to a married couple who are traveling or going somewhere together. Often used in contexts like sightseeing, commuting, or attending events as a pair.
There were many tourist couples traveling together in the hot spring town.
That married couple comes to this festival together every year.
Standard kanji spelling using 夫婦 (husband and wife) and 連れ (accompanying).
Alternate reading using the older めおと pronunciation for 夫婦; less common in modern usage.
Dialectal or archaic reading; rarely encountered.
Compound of 夫婦 (husband and wife) and 連れ (accompanying, from the verb 連れる). The reading ふうふづれ is the most standard; めおとづれ and みょうとづれ are older or dialectal variants.