Frau
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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
Opera, which commissioned Hockney sets for the operas “Tristan and Isolde” and “Die Frau Ohne Schatten.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
People still talk about the focused splendor he brought to another huge, hard-to-wrangle Strauss score, “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” at the Metropolitan Opera more than 20 years ago.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Above her bed are papered her fantastical pencil drawings of Frau Elena’s village, of Paris with a thousand white towers beneath whirling flocks of birds.
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
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
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
When I got home to the Abode of Blighted Fraus that evening, I debated seriously with myself whether or not I should accept Mr. Cyrus W. Hitchcock's mysterious invitation.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
Next day, I bade a tearless farewell to the Blighted Fraus.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
