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名詞

Frau (plural Frauen or Fraus)

1. (slightly dated) Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a (typically married) German-speaking woman.

   Synonym: Fr.

   Coordinate term: Herr

   • 1970, George C[linton] D[ensmore] Odell, Annals of the New York Stage, New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, page 169:

     G. von Hoffmann’s Die Ochsenmenuette offered Frau von Berckel as Therese, Scherer as Istock, Lotti as Eduard, and Frauen Schmidt and Esden, and Graff, Lehmann and Kress in minor rôles.

   • 2002, Margaret Cook, “The Military Celibate”, in Lords of Creation: The Demented World of Men in Power, London: Robson Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     His gifts as an impassioned speaker had brought him to the notice of some wealthy society ladies (Frauen Bechstein, Hofmann and Wagner), who lionised him and tolerated his cranky behaviour as that of a budding genius.

   • 2007, A[ndrew] N[orman] Wilson, Winnie and Wolf, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 54:

     There was more than a little rivalry between the two ladies, Frauen Wagner and Bechstein, when it came to offering Wolf accommodation, though Winnie could see that while she was so busy with the Festival it made sense for Wolf to stay with the Bechsteins and come round to Wahnfried for visits.

   • 2015, Joel M. Levin, Our Beguine: The Dance of Life, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     We met our landlords-to-be, Frau and Herr Friedrich, themselves émigrés from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

関連する語

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Further reading

• “Frau”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Frau”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “Frau”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “Frau”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.