hausfraun.
/ˈhaʊsfraʊ/, U.S. /ˈhaʊsˌfraʊ/ A housewife. Also hausvrow, huisvrouw [after Dutch huisvrouw] .
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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > manager or administrator > of a household > woman
housewifec1225
housekeepera1616
hausfrau1798
homebuilder1855
homemaker1861
home keeper1875
1798 A. Barnard Let. 6 June in S. Afr. a Cent. Ago (1901) viii. 157 This, as a careful haus-vrow, devolved on me.
1843 E. 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.
1848 Wesleyan-Meth. Mag. Aug. 886 You find the huis-vrouw, or ‘mistress’, seated at a small table.
1866 C. 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 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xiii. 40 A simple painstaking businesslike man, who had married a German hausfrau.
1918 R. 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.
1930 Observer 20 Apr. 8/4 The big German newspapers, cognisant of the power of the hausfrau.
1962 Punch 9 May 706/2 Women in West Germany appear to have taken a tremendous leap forward from hausfrau to high executive positions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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