childbed

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

From Middle English child bed; equivalent to child + bed.

The wife probably died in childbed. — The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Frederic, a martial and amorous young Prince, had married a beautiful young lady, of whom he was enamoured, and who had died in childbed of Isabella. — The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
The man that was come in to the house then spoke to the nursingwoman and he asked her how it fared with the woman that lay there in childbed. — Ulysses, James Joyce

parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail

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