[Ger.; dim. of FRAU lady, ‘Mrs.’] A young lady, ‘miss.’ Often applied in England to German governesses.
a. 1689. Etheredge, Poems, Wks. (1888), 378.
| Now sparkling in the Fräulein’s hair; | |
| No rocket breaking in the air | |
| Can with her starry head compare. |
1883. Miss Braddon, Golden Calf, I. i. 5. The placid voice of the Fraulein demonstrating to Miss Mullins that in an exercise of twenty lines, ten words out of every twenty were wrong.
