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accouchement

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12 lettersPronunciation /əˈkuːʃmənt/Part of speech nounSorted accceehmnotuStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Childbirth or the process of giving birth.

Word origin

Borrowed from French accouchement, from French accoucher (“to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery”), from Old French acouchier (“to lay down, put to bed, go to bed”), from Latin ad- + collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate.

Used in a sentence

  • Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.
  • a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement
  • A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.

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