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accouchement

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Accouchement (noun) means the act of giving birth to a baby.

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The act of giving birth to a baby.
"Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses."
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Etymology

Accouchement was 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- plus collocare (“to lay, put, place”). See collate.

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What is the meaning of accouchement?
"accouchement" (noun) means the act of giving birth to a baby.
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Other words for "accouchement" include childbearing, childbirth.

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