Definition of "hausfrau" [hausfrau]

• A housewife. (noun)

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• "He found the German woman not the mild and simple 'hausfrau' of folk lore, but a virile woman with a creed that the production of children was her first duty, not only to her husband and herself, but to her country."
• "It would be deeply unpopular with the German "hausfrau""
• "Specifically, the ads she recently shot for Dolce & Gabbana, in which she does her best impression of a miserable, yet beautiful, hausfrau."