hausfrau
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of hausfrau
1790–1800; < German, equivalent to Haus house + Frau wife, woman
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Humphries’ obituaries have demarcated the journey she took to get here, from frumpy 1950s Melbourne hausfrau to 1980s glamazon, yet once she arrived, she seemed to have been waiting for us all along.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
The hausfrau disguise permitted all the others, allowing the cabbage to store everything for later use.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Dame Edna, the imperious suburban Melbourne, Australia, hausfrau with the purple wig and lacerating tongue, has never seen any connection between winning friends and influencing people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2015
They look a bit incongruous with the gray hausfrau dress, genteel pearls and headscarf worn in the Seattle Repertory Theatre production by actor Nick Garrison.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
Here, again, the good qualities of Aunt Hedwig came to the front, for to her intelligent direction was due the rather surprising success that attended Roschen's ambitious attempt to become so early a hausfrau.
From An Idyl Of The East Side 1891 by Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas)
The "I Love Lucy" of Shakespeare's canon, "Merry Wives" borrowed from French and Italian farce to depict two Windsor hausfraus handily outwitting male jealousy, greed and lust.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2011
What a time those hausfraus had polishing up their silver, pewter, brass, and copper treasures, in opening up best rooms, and newly sanding the floors in devious intricate designs!
From Yule-Tide in Many Lands by Bridgman, L. J. (Lewis Jesse)
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