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- noun Plural form of
childbed .
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Examples
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1832, Mendelssohn says of the "so - called romantic school" that it has infected all the Parisians, and that on the stage they think of nothing but the plague, the gallows, the devil, childbeds, and the like.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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