accoucheuse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a female midwife or woman who assists at childbirth

   The accoucheuse stayed with the laboring mother through the night.

From French accoucheuse, feminine of accoucheur ('one who assists at childbirth'), from accoucher ('to deliver, give birth'), from a- ('to') + coucher ('to lie down'), from Latin collocāre ('to place').

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