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accouchement (noun) – A confinement during childbirth; a lying-in.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : “Parturition, delivery in childbed,” 1803, from French accouchement, noun of action from accoucher “go to childbed”. The verb accouche (1867) is a back-formation, or else from French accoucher.
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