Meaning of fraeulein | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of fraulein.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“Let Germans marry Yankee girls, and so they’ll win a prize; / Let fraeuleins marry Yankee men. ’twill tend to equalize; / For in such a healthy climate all should heed the first command, / To “be fruitful,” and to “multiply” and “replenish” all the land.”

“If you are Jewish * * * just do not let your fraeulein’s opinion influence yours.”

“A considerable number of German fraeuleins and hausfrauen must have taken to the alien soldiers, for some eight hundred mulatto babies came from illicit relations between these women and their soldier friends.”

“The train’s restoration was supervised by George Powell of TA’s Coney Island shop, who posed with the fraeuleins for this photograph.”

“Chiefly to learn languages, usually English and French, without which they would not get the prestige job the^([sic]) wanted in Germany, but partly as a subconscious psychological demonstration of their new found freedom and independence the fraeuleins began to flock abroad to London, Paris, Geneva and Madrid and in some cases New York.”

“One of his misconceptions involved German fraeuleins, and as soon as he could wriggle free from the company area he headed for town looking for fraeuleins and ready, he thought, to take over.”

“THE women of Germany were at first sullen and then friendly to the point that non-fraternization collapsed and GI’s wrote back to their friends in France that the fraeuleins were nicer than the mademoiselles.”

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