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
We never learn Frau Blücher’s first name, but let’s assume it’s Ruth.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021
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’s voice is low and deflated, but it does not seem afraid.
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
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
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
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
Besides: Das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt, that one might easily be mistaken.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
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
Next day, I bade a tearless farewell to the Blighted Fraus.
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
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
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
