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Word: huisvrouwen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Kitchen. Soon all Borculo was working side by side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm girls rehearsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Oliebollen for Warren | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...mood. For seven days last week, stolid shopkeepers and sturdy burghers from Friesland to Limburg, from Gelderland to the sea put by their staid reserve to celebrate a golden jubilee and say farewell to a Queen and a friend. In medieval Utrecht parading clowns made boisterous sport of laughing huisvrouwen. In southern 's Hertogenbosch ragamuffin children romped through the streets in false faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Farewell--with Pink Begonias | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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