frau

nounattested in dialogue

//fɹaʊ//

A woman, especially a German woman.

noun

1
A woman, especially a German woman.
To Germantown, Pa., the German frauen carried their domestic industry of the hand knitting of woolen hose, and before 1775 there were one hundred and fifty knitting frames at Germantown and in the vicinity of the Brandywine; […]
Witch: / Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! / You damned old beast! You cursed old sow! / You leave the kettle and singe the frau.
It presents Dürer’s mother as a sharp-nosed, world-weary German frau looking wryly out at life from under a decorous wimple.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Frau. Doublet of frow, vrou, and vrouw.

Forms

plural: fraus

Frasier · A surname.frat · Shortened form of fraternity, college organization.fraternity · The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.

frau · A woman, especially a German woman.

Frau · Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a (typically…fraud · The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money…freak · Someone or something that is markedly unusual or…

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