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enceinte

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en·ceinte 1  (n-snt, än-snt)
adj.
Carrying an unborn child; pregnant.
[French, from Old French, ultimately from Latin incins, pregnant; see keu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Adj.1.enceinteenceinte - in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child"
gravid, with child, expectant, great, large, big, heavy
pregnant - carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
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de Nargonne, your first husband, being neither a philosopher nor a banker, or perhaps being both, and seeing there was nothing to be got out of a king's attorney, died of grief or anger at finding, after an absence of nine months, that you had been enceinte six.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
He simply walked; he walked straight before him, following the river, till he got out of the enceinte of Paris.
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