hausfrau

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Recent Examples of hausfrau The German actress could draft off her own Lead Actress campaign to score two nominations in the same year — a feat last pulled off by Scarlett Johansson, who in a weird bit of Oscar symmetry also got her Supporting nod for playing a German hausfrau in World War II. Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024 Deborah Greenspan, an energetic hausfrau whose principal cause is resettling immigrants, has decided to host an inventive, and obnoxious, dinner party. Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023 Harry's alter ego is a dull breadwinner who, like most male suburbanites, bores his hausfrau (Jamie Lee Curtis) with the minutiae of his drab job. Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019 Her father was a music teacher, her mother a hausfrau or a housewife. Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 3 Apr. 2018 Being a mother involves being an efficient hausfrau. John Richardson, Town & Country, 13 Oct. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hausfrau
Noun
  • Now, all of the housewives come back together, the group with Tamra and the one with Gretchen, for a handgun-shooting competition.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Based on lesbian writer Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt, Todd Haynes’ Carol follows a love affair between photographer Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) and housewife Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett).
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Stewart, or otherwise known as America’s homemaker—had a path that was far from linear.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her father, who had made a fortune in real estate and brewing, was president of the Cleveland Trust Company, then Ohio’s largest bank; her mother, a homemaker, enrolled her in art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
    News Desk, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their three children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In one case, a hospital employee worked her way up from housekeeper to registrar to quality analyst.
    Rae Ellen Bichell, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Hausfrau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hausfrau. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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