Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A midwife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Recent A midwife.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A
midwife .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
Etymologies
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Examples
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(One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse")
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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(One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse")
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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(One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse")
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One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse"
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse"
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And I thought, too, of a certain accoucheuse named Velikova who had been a comely, but reputedly gay, woman.
Through Russia 2003
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And I thought, too, of a certain accoucheuse named Velikova who had been a comely, but reputedly gay, woman.
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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She is a skilled accoucheuse, and among the negroes of the Cossetot
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The uterine globe is then firmly pressed and kneaded, whilst the accoucheuse makes more or less firm traction upon the cord.
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If the case has been an easy one, and the woman has not been raised from her couch, the first efforts to obtain the placenta are made as she lies there, the accoucheuse, making gentle but tolerable firm traction on the cord with one hand, manipulates the uterine globe with the other.
bilby commented on the word accoucheuse
Gesundheit!
June 10, 2022