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Next the pilots loaded in rations prepared by their good fraus: sausage, chocolate, zwieback, hard-boiled eggs, bananas, lemons, orange juice, tea.

From Time Magazine Archive

Officials clapped them on the backs; fraus kissed them goodbye.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Prussian Diet fair fraus and frauleins stopped a fight among the male members by jumping into the melee of fists.

From Time Magazine Archive

The theatre was exhibited, all the general's five daughters, including the newly married Amalia with her factory-owner, numerous fraus and frauleins with their men folk, attentively examined and admired the theatre, after which they danced.

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

If it is a fraus it is indeed a pia fraus; that cannot be denied.

From Essays of Schopenhauer by Schopenhauer, Arthur