Hausfrau
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hausfrau is a noun meaning Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.
Meaning
Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.
Example Sentences
JoEllen is a dumpy small-town hausfrau trying to be good and stick to her bowl of dry salad, but unable to resist the call of the chocolate cake she keeps moving around from the icebox to the cupboard to the stove.
"I wouldn't have thought that Camille, of all people, who's so sort of peasant-earthy, like a hausfrau in Brueghel, would be such a fantasist, would you?" - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 303)
Word Forms
- hausfraus
- hausfrauen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include houseperson, housewife, housespouse, housewoman, husbandwoman, goodwife.
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