accoucheur
Americannoun
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
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
He believes, that it was infectious, and that the contagion was always carried by the accoucheur or the nurse from one lying-in woman to another.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The cord is attached to the body of the child at the point called the navel, being cut off at birth by the accoucheur.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
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
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
Many other reasons can be enumerated pregnant with complications and above all when Lincoln-Seward are the accoucheurs.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
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 Kelley, Florence
It gave her a large following in Germany as well as in France, and there were not wanting distinguished German accoucheurs who followed Mme.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
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