Definition of "accouchement"

accouchement

/əˈkuːʃmənt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural accouchements
1. Delivery in childbed; parturition
  Quotations
  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 […]
  1763 June, “An account of the law-suit concerning the succession to the late Duke of Douglas, continued”, in The Scots Magazine, volume 25, page 308
  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
  1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], page 156
  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.
  1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153