hausfrau

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  • It had been cut for a hausfrau, and she did not have that kind of a figure The boy consulted his watch. —  138 - The Shape of Terror
  • Still, this unabashedly small film -- about a single woman's parallel life as a hausfrau -- succeeds precisely because it never loses track of the intimate story it sets out to tell. —  F ;SF - vol 099 issue 03 - September 2000
  • I want you to stay home and do any digging long-distance I may have sounded like a hausfrau yesterday, but I still do my job, Eve. —  Johansen, Iris - Stalemate
  • Eventually, Megan is also transformed into an uber-hausfrau through a process that involves a brainwashing device that looks suspiciously like a pink salon hairdryer. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
  • "Aquarius" and "White Boys," Andrew Kober as a hausfrau who gaily encounters the counterculture ( "Oh, Hubert," she cries to her husband upon meeting the hippies, "a whole haggle of hippi!"), and lanky, adorable Bryce Ryness as the Mick Jagger-idolizing Woof.
 

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  1. German : Haus, house (from Middle High German hūs, from Old High German) + Frau, wife; see Frau.
 

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