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accouchement

[uh-koosh-muhnt, a-koosh-mahn] / əˈkuʃ mənt, a kuʃˈmɑ̃ /


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The jargon of self-help abounds in new attitudes toward accouchement.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is events such as the accouchement of Brigitte Bardot that send our competitors' sales soaring.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long before Nicholas Jacques Charrier entered Paris, the French press, excited beyond endurance�and reason�turned his mother's accouchement into the biggest story since the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1910 he was in Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her husband on taking flight had been constrained to leave her behind in Paris, she being near her accouchement, which circumstance however did not prevent the Queen from giving an order for her arrest.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883




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