accouchement
Americannoun
noun
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; see 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
At her first accouchement she took the precaution of registering at the hospital under a false name, thereby assuring detailed reports of the event in the newspapers.
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
Well aware of the fate which awaited her unborn babe, the ex-Czarina procured the body of a dead infant, and at her accouchement had it substituted for the male child which she gave birth to.
From Claimants to Royalty by Ingram, John M.
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