How do you pronounce accouchement?

The recorded pronunciation is /əˈkuːʃmənt/.

accouchement

/əˈkuːʃmənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.01 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

"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"
"A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town."

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.

accouchements (plural)

vaginal birth

childbearing childbirth vaginal birth