noun
Meaning 1
A traditional housewife.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Hausfrau
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noun
Meaning 2
Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
Examples
- "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)
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History
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Hausfrau.