[Ger.] A married woman, wife.
a. 1813. A. Wilson, Foresters, Poet. Wks. (1846), 214.
| Abroad at toil ere yet the morning breaks, | |
| Each rugged task his hardy frau partakes. |
1818. Blackw. Mag., III. Aug., 532.
| Some half a score of Fraus sat round a table, | |
| Playing at Commerce, that most dull round game; | |
| Enormous Fraus, with ribbons at their ears, | |
| And but one beau, the Parson Vanderschipiers. |
1880. T. E. Webb, trans. Goethe’s Faust, II. vi.
| You blasted beast! You cursed sow! | |
| You have left the kettle, and scorched the frau! |
