accoucheur
Americannoun
plural
accoucheursnoun
Etymology
Origin of accoucheur
From French, dating back to 1750–60; accouchement, -eur
Example Sentences
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Once an accoucheur, the patient, fumbling Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur.
From Time Magazine Archive
She hurries home, barely reaching her apartment when the heroic babe is delivered, without an accoucheur, on a piece of tapestry inwrought with an effigy of Achilles!
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
Sir Richard Croft, a fashionable accoucheur of that time, was in attendance upon her with other physicians.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
His practice was confined almost entirely to the best class of the people of New York, and he was for many years the favorite accoucheur in a large circle of families in that city.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney
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