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mevrouw

mevrouw noun: a Dutchwoman, especially a Dutch or Afrikaner mistress.

Noun

mevrouw (plural mevrouws or mevrouwen)

  1. A Dutchwoman, especially a Dutch or Afrikaner mistress.
    • You’re more like the English who think themselves vastly superior to us and mix only with Mevrouwen and Heeren.1917, Emilie Benson Knipe, Alden Arthur Knipe, A Maid of Old Manhattan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 24
    • The Dutch mynheeren and mevrouwen everywhere are busily engaged in decorating their clean cities and no doubt they will all lift their glasses at the same time and drink the health of their good Queen with that famous national drink Holland gin.1948 August 27, The Freehold Transcript, volume LX, number 52, Freehold, N.J., page 4

Examples of mevrouw in a sentence

  • Many of the mevrouwen were buxom souls whose lightness of foot in dancing never ceased to amaze me.1969, Elliott R[aymond] Thorpe, East Wind, Rain: The Intimate Account of an Intelligence Officer in the Pacific, 1939-49, Boston, Mass....
  • While gossiping and exchanging news, the mevrouwen are also poking, prodding, sniffing, scrutinising; weighing up options and recipes.2005, The Spectator, page 44:

Forms of mevrouw

pluralmevrouws
pluralmevrouwen

Origin of mevrouw

Borrowed from Dutch mevrouw.

Questions about mevrouw

What does mevrouw mean?
Mevrouw means a Dutchwoman, especially a Dutch or Afrikaner mistress.
How do you use mevrouw in a sentence?
Many of the mevrouwen were buxom souls whose lightness of foot in dancing never ceased to amaze me.
What part of speech is mevrouw?
Mevrouw is a noun.
What is the plural of mevrouw?
The plural of mevrouw is mevrouws.

Words near mevrouw in the dictionary

  1. mevinolin
  2. mevinphos
  3. Mevlevi
  4. Mevlevis
  5. MEVN
  6. mevrouw
  7. mevrouwen
  8. mevrouws
  9. MeVs
  10. mevushal
  11. mew

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