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hausfrau

noun

Definition of hausfrau

as in housewife

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Recent Examples of hausfrau 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

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Noun

Along with Cold War Choir Practice, this is her second cult-captive housewife in less than a year.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Airing for eight seasons between 1964 and 1972, the fantastical series followed the daily adventures of a powerful witch who attempted to live as a typical suburban housewife alongside her mortal husband.

— Justine Fisher, PEOPLE, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of housewife

Noun

His father sold women’s clothing and had a gambling problem, and his mother was a homemaker.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
Early life Sai Pallavi Senthamarai was born to Senthamarai Kannan, a government official, and Radha Kannan, a homemaker.

— Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

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Jude’s modern twist on Octave Mirbeau’s novel follows Gianina (Ana Dumitrașcu), a Romanian migrant working as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a wealthy family in present-day Bordeaux.

— Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
To try that one, the salesperson first had to turn down the covers for us like a mother with her children or a housekeeper in a fancy hotel.

— Jaklin Romine Oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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