accouchement
Americannoun
plural
accouchementsnoun
Etymology
Origin of accouchement
1800–10; < French, derivative, with -ment -ment, of accoucher to give birth, be delivered, assist in giving birth, Old French: to lie down, take to bed, equivalent to ac- ac- + coucher to put to bed; couch
Example Sentences
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It is events such as the accouchement of Brigitte Bardot or Queen Elizabeth which send our competitors' sales soaring.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1910 he was in Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Long before Nicholas Jacques Charrier entered Paris, the French press, excited beyond endurance�and reason�turned his mother's accouchement into the biggest story since the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle.
From Time Magazine Archive
All such details of accouchement can be arranged in homely midwife fashion by the Director of the Bank of Scotland.
From Time Magazine Archive
That her literary accouchement should not be a failure, she further says: "Lord, how I've bother'd all the gods and graces, Who patronize some mortals, in such cases."
From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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