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Frau

[frau, frau] / fraʊ, fraʊ /
NOUN
madam
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Antonyms
STRONGEST


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As such, all eyes have been on Schwesig, a former national family minister whose motto has been the "Frau gegen Blau" -- the woman against blue, the AfD's signature colour.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Suffice to say, Frau Platter had a lot on her plate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Every detail was meticulously curated—Poltrona Frau furniture, Byredo bathroom amenities, a Lutron lighting system, and a Bang & Olufsen sound system, to name a few.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025

In 1974, Leachman played the iconic Frau Blücher — the sinister housekeeper of the Frankenstein estate whose very name spooked the horses — in Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s horror parody “Young Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2021

Frau Elena looks as if she’s about to speak, then thinks better of it.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Average attendance for Germany’s top women’s league, Bundesliga Frauen, has grown by 190% in the last five years according to Euromonitor, from less than 900 in 2017 to almost 2,500 in 2022.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

Frauen said he was only able to participate in bidding to develop a new turbine last year because he bought materials before the war in Ukraine sent prices soaring.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023

It’s a disappointment, says Frauen, who had hoped it would cement the area as a green energy hub.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023

Wolfsburg, top of Germany's Frauen Bundesliga, went ahead when the hosts failed to clear Tabea Wassmuth's shot before she escaped her marker to head in from six yards following Joelle Wedemeyer's cross.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2022

La Mara, an indefatigable and enthusiastic collector of anecdotes about unusual folk, has just published a book, Liszt und die Frauen.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

Pia Fraus or Something Else.—I hope I am mistaken, but I think that in Germany of to-day a twofold sort of hypocrisy is set up as the duty of the moment for every one.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

G. A. J. "Nullis Fraus tuta latebris."—Can any of your correspondents favour me with a reference to the above motto?

From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

Then, in a triumphant manner, he concludeth all with this Exhortation to his Countrymen: Quid nos deterret? si firmiter in pede stemus, Fraus ni nos superat, nihil est quod non superemus.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Riley Parker

I ate a light breakfast, eschewing the fried sausages which the Blighted Fraus pressed upon my notice, and satisfying myself with a gently-boiled egg and some toast and coffee.

From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

There were eight Blighted Fraus at the Home for Lost Ideals, and I could tell by simple inspection that they had not had an average of half an adventure per lifetime between them.

From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen




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