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Accouchement

//əˈkuːʃmənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Delivery in childbed; parturition countable, uncountable

    "Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses."

  2. 2
    the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French accouchement, 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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