Noun: accoucheur
| Singular | accoucheur |
| Plural | accoucheurs |
Sample Sentences
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And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages. [1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98:]
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Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth. [1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 163:]
Nouns inflected like accoucheur
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“to place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“to put, place, set”). See accouchement. See: French Nouns '
accoucheur', Latin Nouns '
collocō'.