Definition of childbed in English:
childbed
noun ˈtʃʌɪl(d)bɛdˈtʃaɪl(d)bɛd
archaic term for childbirth
Example sentencesExamples
- For many, service to Christ constituted the only creditable alternative to matrimony and childbed.
- Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century.
- He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed.
- Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though?
- When Francesca was in childbed after Rosemary and Arthur were born, she was so ill as to never be quite sure of what was going on around her.
Definition of childbed in US English:
childbed
nounˈtʃaɪl(d)bɛdˈCHīl(d)bed
archaic term for childbirth
Example sentencesExamples
- Is there any real evidence that women in childbed were more prone to the nightmare, though?
- He himself had been born after the Restoration, only to have his mother die, as hers had, in childbed.
- When Francesca was in childbed after Rosemary and Arthur were born, she was so ill as to never be quite sure of what was going on around her.
- For many, service to Christ constituted the only creditable alternative to matrimony and childbed.
- Such was the devastation of puerperal, or childbed, fever, which stormed European and American maternity wards for over a century.