Meaning & use
Accouchement
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The act or period of giving birth; confinement during childbirth.
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The duchess withdrew from public life during her accouchement.
Nineteenth-century novels often discreetly referred to a character's accouchement rather than describing labor directly.
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Borrowed from French, this formal and somewhat old-fashioned term was common in earlier English medical and literary writing.
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