Fräulein
Americannoun
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an unmarried woman.
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the conventional German title of respect and term of address for an unmarried woman, corresponding to Miss.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Fräulein
from Middle High German vrouwelīn , diminutive of vrouwe lady
Example Sentences
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I’m never gonna be Mary Poppins or Fräulein Maria, she pointed out, so I needed to quit the perfectionism.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2024
“Portrait of Fräulein Lieser,” an enigmatic, long-lost 1917 painting by Gustav Klimt, sold Wednesday for 35 million euros with fees, or about $37 million, at the auction house im Kinsky in Vienna.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
In a story arc that adds aching poignancy, Donna Migliaccio packs humor and solidity into landlady Fräulein Schneider, who is wooed by Herr Schultz, a gentle Jewish fruit merchant.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019
And it’s hard to render that much more literal than in a season among the misshapen, multi-appendaged, chicken-head-biting denizens of Fräulein Elsa’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
From Time ● Oct. 8, 2014
“It’s no use. Move along, Fräulein, now!” the soldier commanded, waving us forward.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
The wives of the petty officials shopping in the Marienplatz shuddered, and clutched their ample skirts when they saw her; anxious mothers instructed dumpy Fräuleins "not to look like the foreign woman."
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace
We pass a score—twoscore, threescore, perhaps—of happy parties, soldiers again, a bourgeois family of three generations, the old grandmother with a mushroom-hat tied over her cap—soldiers and Fräuleins coketteering.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
Do not be afraid, Jill: we will spend our Christmas Day together, in spite of all the Fräuleins in the world.'
From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
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