vrouw
Americannoun
plural
vrouwen,plural
vrouws-
a woman; wife; lady.
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(used as a title before the name of a married woman) Mrs.
Example Sentences
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At one point in the video, referencing a common segment on her channel, de Jager announced that her "Dutch Word of the Day" was vrouw - meaning woman.
From BBC
A crowd of townspeople was approaching us, and in the centre walked a portly vrouw, wearing a weighty vessel not unlike a butter churn, her head appearing through a hole, the rest of her being hidden inside the wooden barrel.
From Project Gutenberg
One day a Dutch sailor from Curaçoa enters a drinking shop on the Boompjees, and sees, sitting down at a table over a bottle of schiedam, three men whom he recognises as part of the crew of the ill-fated Vrouw Elisa.
From Project Gutenberg
"Were you never on board the Vrouw Elisa?"
From Project Gutenberg
The seizure of the Vrouw Elisa was a very different matter; for the mutineers then knew that there was a revolutionary party ready to purchase the vessel they had stolen.
From Project Gutenberg
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