accoucheuse
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of accoucheuse
literally: one who is present at the bedside
Example Sentences
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More noted as accoucheuses and gynecologists than the three distinguished women just mentioned were Mme.
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For the parents were quite inexperienced, and Mrs. Puddiphatt was an accoucheuse of the sixties, and the newborn child was near to dying in the bedroom without anybody being aware of the fact.
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After all, he preferred starvation to turning his art into mere commerce by manufacturing portraits of tradesmen and their wives; concocting conventional religious pictures or daubing blinds for restaurants or sign-boards for accoucheuses.
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The accoucheuse of a small village in Wales was one night aroused by a carriage driving furiously through it, and stopping at her door.
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She has been chief accoucheuse in the Royal Hospital of Berlin, and possesses a certificate of her superiority from the Board of Directors of that institution.
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