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.
カップル is a more general term for a romantic couple (not necessarily married), while 夫婦連れ explicitly refers to a husband and wife traveling together.
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.