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Meaning of housemotherly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Of or befitting a housemother.

Examples

Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of Hersheys discreetly under a fold of the bedspread.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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