accouchement

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In 1910 he was in Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism.

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He secured a tractor, arrived at the accouchement with 15 minutes to spare.

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Moreover, he and the Duchess, ex-Susie Potter of Chicago, had been separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago.

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Long before Nicholas Jacques Charrier entered Paris, the French press, excited beyond endurance�and reason�turned his mother's accouchement into the biggest story since the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle.

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Well aware of the fate which awaited her unborn babe, the ex-Czarina procured the body of a dead infant, and at her accouchement had it substituted for the male child which she gave birth to.

From Claimants to Royalty by Ingram, John M.