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accouchement

/əˈkuːʃmənt/

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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.

noun accouchements

countable, uncountable Delivery in childbed; parturition Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses.

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@misc{accouchement_2026,
  title = {accouchement},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/accouchement},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}