"fraeulein" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: fraeuleins [plural]
Etymology: ⟨ä⟩ (German Fräulein) spelt as ⟨ae⟩. Etymology templates: {{orth|ä}} ⟨ä⟩, {{m+|de|Fräulein}} German Fräulein, {{orth|ae}} ⟨ae⟩ Head templates: {{en-noun}} fraeulein (plural fraeuleins)
  1. Alternative spelling of fraulein. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: fraulein
    Sense id: en-fraeulein-en-noun-dOY7476j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1890, The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Old Settlers’ Association of Sauk County, Held at Prairie du Sac, June 24 and 25, 1890, page 6, column 1:",
          "text": "Let Germans marry Yankee girls, and so they’ll win a prize; / Let fraeuleins marry Yankee men. ’twill tend to equalize; / For in such a healthy climate all should heed the first command, / To “be fruitful,” and to “multiply” and “replenish” all the land.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, The Jewish Forum, page 104:",
          "text": "If you are Jewish * * * just do not let your fraeulein’s opinion influence yours.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 May, Alfred Werner, “Germany’s New Pariahs”, in The Crisis, page 293, column 1:",
          "text": "A considerable number of German fraeuleins and hausfrauen must have taken to the alien soldiers, for some eight hundred mulatto babies came from illicit relations between these women and their soldier friends.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Bulletin, National Railway Historical Society, page 29:",
          "text": "The train’s restoration was supervised by George Powell of TA’s Coney Island shop, who posed with the fraeuleins for this photograph.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, German International, volume 10, page 42:",
          "text": "Chiefly to learn languages, usually English and French, without which they would not get the prestige job the^([sic]) wanted in Germany, but partly as a subconscious psychological demonstration of their new found freedom and independence the fraeuleins began to flock abroad to London, Paris, Geneva and Madrid and in some cases New York.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1972 July, John G. Kelso, “The V Corps’ ‘Operation Bootstrap’: Solution From Experience”, in Army, The Association of the U.S. Army, page 42, column 2:",
          "text": "One of his misconceptions involved German fraeuleins, and as soon as he could wriggle free from the company area he headed for town looking for fraeuleins and ready, he thought, to take over.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1973, Elizabeth Janeway, editor, Women: Their Changing Roles, →ISBN, page 209:",
          "text": "THE women of Germany were at first sullen and then friendly to the point that non-fraternization collapsed and GI’s wrote back to their friends in France that the fraeuleins were nicer than the mademoiselles.",
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          "ref": "1890, The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Old Settlers’ Association of Sauk County, Held at Prairie du Sac, June 24 and 25, 1890, page 6, column 1:",
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          "ref": "1946, The Jewish Forum, page 104:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 May, Alfred Werner, “Germany’s New Pariahs”, in The Crisis, page 293, column 1:",
          "text": "A considerable number of German fraeuleins and hausfrauen must have taken to the alien soldiers, for some eight hundred mulatto babies came from illicit relations between these women and their soldier friends.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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        },
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