vrouw
Americannoun
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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
After Gideon Roux followed that worthy’s vrouw, looking quite as slatternly and rather more frightened than on that occasion when Colvin had partaken of her somewhat grudging hospitality.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram
Sufficient rules cannot be given, E. g. het mooie kind: eene sterke vrouw, een zwart schip.
From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin
But the fore-room, or voorhuis, though seldom occupied, was dear to the soul of the vrouw of New Netherland.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder
Then she and the Ou’ Baas had words, and she cleared out Ja, she was a kwaai vrouw.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram
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