: "Daughter as a wife" or "daughter for a wife". Drafting a Piece
The specific string "Töchter rar" often appears in digitized versions of 19th-century academic journals, like the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft , where the character was misread by scanners as "r" and "u" as part of an "a" , leading to the nonsensical "rar Frau" instead of "zur Frau". TГ¶chter rar
The phrase is likely an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) error for the archaic German phrase "Tochter zur Frau" . : "Daughter as a wife" or "daughter for a wife"