Crossword-Solution: VROUWS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

They tell me English women do not cook and make clothes like our vrouws, so what will she find to do? I doubt an idle woman will be like a mealie-fed horse.” It was no good explaining to him the kind of girl Mary was, for that was a world entirely beyond his ken.

The idea that has occurred to me is that I will purchase one, so that I may be able to accompany the fair Vrouws when they play the piano.

She looked so tender, so delicately frail a creature to be there in that malodorous Gehenna, ministering to the wants of slatternly vrouws and stalwart, down-at-heel Irishwomen.

They were butter-firkins, swillers of beer and schnapps, and their _vrouws_ from whom Holbein painted the all but loveliest of Madonnas, Rembrandt the graceful girl who sits immortal on his knee in Dresden, and Rubens his abounding goddesses, were the synonyms of clumsy vulgarity.

This city had emerged from New Amsterdam; the old vrouws, with their feather beds and their multiplicity of petticoats and their scrupulously clean houses and their floors with patterns traced in sand, had passed away.