Meaning of Hausfrau | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A traditional housewife.
   informal
2. Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.
   alt-of

Examples

“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)”

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