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Frau

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


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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

Frau Elena’s midnight passage among the beds like an angel, murmuring, I know it’s cold.

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

Holda, whose name means “the kindly one,” is the most friendly of the Frauen.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

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 Allen, Grant

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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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 Allen, Grant

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 Parker, William Riley

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 Allen, Grant




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