accoucheur
Americannoun
plural
accoucheursnoun
Etymology
Origin of accoucheur
From French, dating back to 1750–60; accouchement, -eur
Example Sentences
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Love-philtres were also regarded from a medicinal point of view, and the strange doings of quack accoucheurs are not less absurdly terrible.
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Sir Richard Croft, a fashionable accoucheur of that time, was in attendance upon her with other physicians.
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In the puerperal state it is dreaded by every accoucheur.
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Her choice of an accoucheur fell upon Dr. Sir Richard Croft, as he was considered the most able and skilful man in his profession.
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A sub-inventor of this sort often views the result of his labour with all the pride of a mother, when he is only entitled to the praise due to an accoucheur.
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