mevrouw

plural mevrouws · plural mevrouwen

1. A Dutchwoman, especially a Dutch or Afrikaner mistress.

   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.: Gambit, →LCCN, page 34

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   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

   While gossiping and exchanging news, the mevrouwen are also poking, prodding, sniffing, scrutinising; weighing up options and recipes.

   2005, The Spectator, page 44