vrouw
noun
a woman; wife; lady.
vrouws
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pluralof vrouw.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
This city had emerged from New Amsterdam; the old vrouws, with their feather beds and their multiplicity of petticoats and their scrupulously clean houses and their floors with patterns traced in sand, had passed away.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
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
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
