Definitions
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- noun A young
German woman.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a German courtesy title or form of address for an unmarried woman
Etymologies
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Examples
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Germany officially abolished the title "fraulein" for unmarried women in 1972.
NYDN Rss LINDSAY GOLDWERT 2012
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Two foreign songs turn out to be beautifully bogus: Pink Martini's faux-French "Sympatique" and "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," a Yiddish swing hit as misinterpreted by a domineering beer-garden fraulein in an audience participation bit that proves, "South Park" to the contrary, that Germans can be funny.
The Jazz Scene: Hot Tones, Francophones Will Friedwald 2011
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So the fraud, I mean, fraulein (Frau-Palin) and ex-everything else is concerned about scientific fraud while maintaining that her supporters have a right to question Obama's birth certificate.
Palin calls for Obama to boycott climate change conference 2009
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A little more than a week later, Stars and Stripes reported, Every American newspaper from Maine to California carried pictures of you and you and you — if, first, you are in Germany and, second, if you spent a few hours with a fraulein.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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"[T] he fraulein with the pretty smile is liable to stab you in the back," one infantryman wrote, "and that brat coming down the street ... is liable to pull a luger out and shoot."
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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Maybe it's the romantic in me, but I too would love to collide with a beautiful? hipster fraulein.
In Transition: Livable Streets, Lovable Lenses BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Ein dis nacht, der bouncie-bouncie fraulein ist bin maken sum hottische liebenshoutin!
Look Out, Germany 2010
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Did Wright have a "Mission Accomplished" banner hung from an aircraft carrier after he took a million dollar ride in a fighter plane just for pomp? fraulein
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So, obviously, the problem isn't fraulein Hillary ... it's all the pinko hippies with their Soros $$$ hating on her hawkishness.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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What is the difference between your deep paranoia that the Arabs are going to get us and the deep paranoia of a German fraulein in 1939 believing Hitler when he said that the Jews are going to get her and her children?
OpEdNews - Diary: US Congressmen Express Shock at Gaza Devastation 2009
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