Definition of "accoucheuse" []

• A midwife. (noun)

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• "(One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse")"
• "One who carries a child for a couple or for a single person is also called "une mère accoucheuse""
• "And I thought, too, of a certain accoucheuse named Velikova who had been a comely, but reputedly gay, woman."