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Fräulein () is the German language honorific previously in common use for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English. ==Description== ''Fräulein'' is the diminutive form of ''Frau'', which was previously reserved only for married women. ''Frau'' is in origin the equivalent of "Mylady" or "Madam", a form of address of a noblewoman. But by an ongoing process of devaluation of honorifics, it came to be used as the unmarked term for "woman" by about 1800. Therefore, ''Fräulein'' came to be interpreted as expressing a "diminutive of woman", as it were implying that a ''Fräulein'' is not-quite-a-woman. By the 1960s, this came to be seen as patronising by proponents of feminism, and during the 1970s and 1980s, the term ''Fräulein'' became nearly taboo in urban and official settings, while it remained an unmarked standard in many rural areas. This process was somewhat problematic, at least during the 1970s to 1980s, since many unmarried women of the older generation insisted on ''Fräulein'' as a term of distinction, respecting their status, and took the address of ''Frau'' as offensive or suggestive of extra-marital sexual experience. 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. Nowadays, style guides and dictionaries recommend that all women be addressed as ''Frau'' regardless of marital status, particularly in formal situations. A ''newsletter'' published on the website of the German dictionary Duden in 2002, for instance, noted that women should only be addressed as ''Fräulein'' when they specifically request this form of address. Despite its less common everyday use nowadays, ''Fräulein'' has seen a revival in recent years as a vogue term, especially in popular culture. 〔(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ), 'German models on the rise - Fräuleins: More and more models 'Made in Germany' are successful on an international scale' (FAZ, ''German'' article)〕〔(ZEIT ), 'Fräulein Wunder - Model Toni Garrn' (Zeit Online, ''German'' article)〕 The term has also seen a rise in use by antiquarians, traditionalists and reactionaries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fräulein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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