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Fräulein was used in German as a title of respect, equivalent to current usage of Miss in English.
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Fräulein and was
Fräulein is the diminutive form of Frau, which was previously reserved only for married women.
Since the 1970s, Fräulein has come to be used less often, and was banned from official use in West Germany in 1972 by the Minister of the Interior.
Hoffmann's tale Das Fräulein von Scuderi ( 1819 ), Elizabeth von Arnim's epistolary novel Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther ( 1907 ), and the comedy film Fräulein vom Amt ( 1954 ), whose title was a common phrase denoting a female operator at a telephone exchange.
The term was also used for the title of the 1969 film Fräulein Doktor, the code name of a World War I spy.
* The legendary German tennis player Steffi Graf was given the nickname " Fräulein Forehand " by the press due to her extremely powerful forehand, considered by many as one of the greatest shots in the history of women's tennis.
The piece was composed as a setting of a song from Walter Scott's popular epic poem The Lady of the Lake, in a German translation by Adam Storck ( 1780-1822 ), and thus forms part of Schubert's Liederzyklus vom Fräulein vom See.
* Steffi Graf, one of whose nicknames was " Fräulein Forehand "
The film had an all-female cast and Thiele played Manuela, a fourteen year old schoolgirl deeply infatuated with her teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg who was played by Dorothea Wieck.
Fräulein and used
In several languages the title for married women, such as Madame, Señora, Signora, or Frau, is the direct feminine equivalent of the title used for men ; the title for unmarried women is a diminutive: Mademoiselle, Señorita, Signorina, or Fräulein.
Fräulein and German
The rather dated German word for a young ( unmarried ) woman, without implications regarding sexuality, is Fräulein.
However, since every German noun ending with-chen or-lein is grammatically neuter, there exist several notable counterexamples such as das Mädchen (" girl ") and das Fräulein (" miss ").
At first, she went by the name Fräulein Unbekannt ( German for Miss Unknown ) as she refused to reveal her identity.
Fräulein (; literally, " little woman " or " little Mrs .") is the German language honorific previously in common use for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English.
German dictionary Duden, for instance, notes that women should only be addressed as Fräulein when they specifically request this form of address.
In an earlier comedy film, Unser Fräulein Doktor ( 1940 ), Jenny Jugo plays Dr. Elisabeth Hansen, a young attractive teacher at a Gymnasium ( German highschool ) who has to fight to be taken seriously as an intellectual.
*" Fräulein " is the title of a 1960s song sung in German by Chris Howland.
* Fräulein (" little woman "), an older but similar German term, now often considered to be derogatory, especially when applied to adults.
Fräulein and title
" A similar change occurred in Germany, with women choosing " Frau " instead of " Fräulein " in an effort to disassociate marital status from title.
Fräulein and Miss
* Miss Pinkerton, Fräulein Weiner, Mademoiselle Chic, Signorina Tasso ( Angy's Governesses ) – Nina Sevening, Mary Fraser, Mabel Hirst, Joan Keddie
The diminutive form Fräulein ( meaning " Miss ", lit.
* Fräulein ( 1985 ) ( Miss )
Fräulein and .
" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".
The agents ' boss later arrives and holds a mini tribunal in the room of K .' s neighbor, Fräulein Bürstner.
He goes to work, and that night apologizes to Fräulein Bürstner for the intrusion into her room.
K. returns home to find Fräulein Montag, a lodger from another room, moving in with Fräulein Bürstner.
Fräulein Bürstner – A boarder in the same house as Josef K. She lets him kiss her one night, but then rebuffs his advances.
Fräulein Montag – Friend of Fräulein Bürstner, she talks to K. about ending his relationship with Fräulein Bürstner after his arrest.
* In Fräulein Doktor, a Dino DeLaurentis film, 1969, a woman spy informs the Germans of Kitchener's travel plans.
An early work of modern mystery fiction, Das Fräulein von Scuderi by E. T. A.
was and used
It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.
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He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.
His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.
It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.
It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.
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