enceinte

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Its remains include an identifying tell mound, at the northern end of the site, a polygonal inner wall circuit, and a large outer defensive wall, or enceinte.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

And when Annette Bening appeared at the Academy Awards in 2000, gloriously enceinte in a dark gown, it sparked “a revolution,” Ms. Fuller said.

From New York Times • May 15, 2013

Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition."

From Time Magazine Archive

She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte.

From Time Magazine Archive

Births out of wedlock, however, are considered discreditable, and marriage generally follows on a girl becoming enceinte, in which case there seems no objection on the part of the lover to become the husband.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden