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  • noun Plural form of hausfrau.

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Examples

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • He has the ability to smell people over the phone, bringing to life the spectrum of the robust middle class, from the cigarette and grease odors of well-fed hausfraus to the beery breath of Hans's grubbing talent agent.

    The Burden of Complicity Sam Sacks 2010

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • And as for the fight with the other cigarette girl'they looked like a pair of hausfraus squabbling ill-naturedly over a cabbage, rather than a pair of ill-bred Spanish cats ready to take knives to each other.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • The little pieces of shredded Palestinian children fall as lightly on the conscience of Europeans and Americans as the dust from the crematoria on the neat-as-a-pin flower boxes brushed off daily by German hausfraus living in the shadows of Dachau and Auschwitz.

    GOTTERDAMMERUNG 2009

  • She was a funny little thing, like a character out of Beatrix Potter, an ancient hen dressed in a hausfraus apron.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • She was a funny little thing, like a character out of Beatrix Potter, an ancient hen dressed in a hausfraus apron.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Lonesome Rhodes: Crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers -- everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle.

    Jesse Kornbluth: The Glenn Beck Movie Was Made in 1957 -- It's A Face in the Crowd 2009

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