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German
Etymology
From Sechswöchnerin, from Woche (“week”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Wöchnerin f (genitive Wöchnerin, plural Wöchnerinnen)
- puerpera; woman in childbed
- Synonym: Puerpera
1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 2, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 564:Unmöglich konnte man sie anders als skandalös bezeichnen, die Merkmale und Einzelheiten dieser animierten Wochenstube im Rotlicht, sowohl was die jungfräuliche Person der Wöchnerin in ihrem fließenden Schlafrock und mit ihren bloßen Ärmchen, […]- It was impossible to describe it otherwise than as scandalous, the features and details of this animated nursery in the red-light, both the virgin person of the woman recently given birth in her flowing dressing gown and with her bare arms,
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