accoucheuse

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accoucheuse (akuʃøz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a female obstetrician or midwife
 
[literally: one who is present at the bedside]

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accoucheuse

noun
a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies [syn: midwife
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Accoucheuse is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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