English
Etymology
German word for 'housewife'
Noun
{{en-noun}
- Colloquial a traditional housewife
Quotations
"I wouldn't have thought that Camille, of all people, who's so sort of peasant-earthy, like a hausfrau in w:Pieter Brueghel the Elder|Brueghel, would be such a fantasist, would you?" - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by w:Joyce Carol Oates|Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 303)
German
Etymology
Compound of Haus (house) + Frau (woman, wife)
Noun
Hausfrau (''plural Hausfrauen)
- A housewife.
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