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In some senses, hausfrau is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.
hausfrau
noun 2
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4ADJ.
dumpy, peasant-earthy, trying
VERB + HAUSFRAU
like
HAUSFRAU + NOUN
brueghel
PREP.
in
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noun
1
A traditional housewife.
noun
1
Alternative letter-case form of Hausfrau.
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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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
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"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 Ca
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