accouche
/əˈkuːʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If a woman be accouched or die in the house of her parents, the parents are unclean for three days, and the brother for one."
- "Every one recognises in the process of generation a certain amount of hereditariness […] nor (except in the Arabian Nights) do royal husbands believe that their princesses can be accouched of logs of wood."
- "Mothers are admitted to the Home prior to confinement, are accouched in the Maternity Ward of the Andressey Hospital, and are then re-admitted with their infants after confinement to the Girls’ Home."
- "After the elaboration of a fact, the most magnificent in all its proportions and most complete in all its details; after accouching a monster such as the world never saw equalled in extent, a leviathan of a lie […]"
- "that immortalized yet unborn Thane of Fife who, invulnerable to normally accouched swordsmen, laid on and slew Macbeth"
- "The Sumu woman […] accouches in a corner of the hut, which has been screened off either with bark cloth or with thatch."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: accoucher