verb • “the custom, now fallen into disuse, found in rural German-speaking districts, of lovers who woo their sweethearts at their bedroom windows, to which they ascend by means of a ladder, enjoying such intimacy that the relation practically amounts to a trial marriage. The reputation of the young woman never suffers on account of Fensterln, unless she becomes intimate with too many suitors”; German
[via Freud and his translator; submitted by helena thompson]
