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; see couch
Example Sentences
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He secured a tractor, arrived at the accouchement with 15 minutes to spare.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, he and the Duchess, ex-Susie Potter of Chicago, had been separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is events such as the accouchement of Brigitte Bardot that 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
The buildings at the back appropriately include “New Bethlehem,” and the house which the reader may remember was engaged for the purposes 135 of her miraculous accouchement.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
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