accouchement

Definition

Delivery in childbed; parturition

Etymology

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.

Example Sentences

• "Custom required that the royal family and the whole Court should be present at the accouchement of the Princesses."
• "The prevalence of the reports contradictory to this supposed legitimacy, rendered it necessary to be more minute, than might in common cases have been requisite, in proving the precise time and place of Lady Jane Douglas's alledged accouchement […]"
• "a third was battling with a cat and her brood of kittens for a pair of old boots which she had been pleased to make the seat of her accouchement"

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