What does frow mean?
Frow means A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one..
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/fɹaʊ/ · noun
A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one..
1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love.
Mrs. Frances, a Frow, Daughter to Vanlock
that which grows in gravel is subject to be frow, as they term it , and brittle
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Frow means A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one..
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1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love.
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