vrouw
Americannoun
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vrouwen,
plural
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vrouws
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a woman; wife; lady.
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(used as a title before the name of a married woman) Mrs.
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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 ● Jan. 14, 2020
“That’s so,” I answered; and now we adjourned to the house where Stoffel Pexter’s vrouw had laid out cups of scalding hot coffee and koekjes.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
Taking Albrecht with us, we saddled up at once, and spoored the vrouw along the track towards the old outspan.
From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden
His vrouw looked frightened enough to satisfy even you that she was talking under compulsion.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
When her homely face beamed upon her guests from behind the counter of her little bureau, she looked the picture of an amiable Dutch vrouw.
From Glories of Spain by Charles W. (William) Wood
Dō brāhte man die vrouwen dā si in ligen vant. si huop sīn schœne houbet mit ir vil wīȥen hant; dō kuste s’ alsō tōten den edelen ritter guot.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
She told, too, how she had signed a petition and presented 354 it to the councillors, begging that the good vrouws be permitted to hold a market day.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Rena I. Halsey
They would have been dressed, I am sure, in the full dress of Holland vrouws.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle
But dough de men wore silber gear, Und de vrouws in gold were tall, De gals vere gabblin all de dimes, Und de men said noding at all.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
In petticoats of linsey red, And jackets neatly kept, The vrouws their knitting-needles sped And deftly spun and swept.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris
The vrouws were comfortable persons, not given to vivacity, yet in their way individual, and that sometimes in a manner not altogether commendable.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
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