accoucheur
Americannoun
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accoucheurs
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of accoucheur
From French, dating back to 1750–60; see origin at accouchement, -eur
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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
Her choice of an accoucheur fell upon Dr. Sir Richard Croft, as he was considered the most able and skilful man in his profession.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
This was the name of an accoucheur god, whose priest went, when sent for, and prayed for the safety of the patient.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
As an accident of pregnancy, it is far fram uncommon, although its relative frequency'' as compared with that of completed gestation, has been very differently estimated by accoucheurs.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Analogous to this is what the accoucheurs call spondylolisthesis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Some accoucheurs have had a practice of introducing their hand into the uterus immediately after the birth of the child, to take away the placenta; which they said was to save time.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Love-philtres were also regarded from a medicinal point of view, and the strange doings of quack accoucheurs are not less absurdly terrible.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
That factory operatives undergo more difficult confinement than other women is testified to by several midwives and accoucheurs, and also that they are more liable to miscarriage.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
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