accouchement
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From French accoucher (“to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery”), from Old French acouchier (“to lay down, put to bed, go to bed”), from Latin ad + collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate
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- enPR: ä′ksh-mäɴ
[edit] Noun
accouchement (plural accouchements)
- Delivery in childbed
- Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.
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[edit] Noun
accouchement m. (plural accouchements)
- delivery (act of giving birth)
