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accoucheur
Accoucheur (noun) means Someone, typically a man, who helps a woman give birth.
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Someone, typically a man, who helps a woman give birth.
"And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages."
— Forrest H. Howard, The Physiologic Position for Delivery (1951)
"Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth."
— Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
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Etymology
Recorded since 1727, accoucheur was borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“to place, put, set in order, assign”), formed from con- plus locō (“to put, place, set”). See accouchement.
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What is the meaning of accoucheur?
"accoucheur" (noun) means someone, typically a man, who helps a woman give birth.
What is another word for accoucheur?
Other words for "accoucheur" include obstetrician, midwife.
