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‖ hausfrau|ˈhaʊsfraʊ|
Also house-frau.
[G.]
A housewife. Also hausvrow, huisvrouw [after Du. huisvrouw].
1798A. Barnard S. Afr. Cent. Ago (1901) 157 This, as a careful haus-vrow, devolved on me. 1843E. Hall Diary in O. A. Sherrard Two Victorian Girls (1966) ix. 92 [On my way] to do the haus-frau, dear Mr. Shore met me. 1848Wesleyan-Meth. Mag. Aug. 886 You find the huis-vrouw, or ‘mistress’, seated at a small table. 1866C. M. Yonge Dove in Eagle's Nest i. 29 Hausfrau Johanna adjured her father..to be a true guardian and protector to the child. 1873― Pillars of House II. xiii. 40 A simple painstaking businesslike man, who had married a German hausfrau. 1918R. Wilson Martin Schüler xi. 120 My sister Bertha was charming: now she is a house-frau. 1925‘E. Barrington’ Divine Lady ii. xv. 213 Her Majesty Queen Charlotte, the prim German hausfrau. 1930Observer 20 Apr. 8/4 The big German newspapers, cognisant of the power of the hausfrau. 1962Punch 9 May 706/2 Women in West Germany appear to have taken a tremendous leap forward from hausfrau to high executive positions. |