accouchement
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
accouchement /əˈkuːʃmɒ̃/
▶noun archaic the action of giving birth.
– origin C18: Fr., from accoucher ‘act as midwife’, from a- (from L. ad ‘to, at’) + coucher (see couch1).
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