Man-midwife

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An accoucheur; a male midwife

    "1775, Laurence Sterne, The Koran, Chapter XXXVII: The Man-Midwife, The Works of Laurence Sterne, page 75, She was daughter to a man-midwife; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also."

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accoucheurmidhusband

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"1775, Laurence Sterne, The Koran, Chapter XXXVII: The Man-Midwife, The Works of Laurence Sterne, page 75, She was daughter to a man-midwife; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also."

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man-midwifery

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