Meaning of housewifery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills.
   dated, uncountable, usually
2. Synonym of household goods.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Meronym: housework”

“1653, Margaret Cavendish, Poems and Fancies, London: J. Martin & J. Allestrye, “To the Reader,” […] I have⟳ no Children to imploy my Care, and Attendance on; And my Lords Estate being taken away, had nothing for Huswifery, or thrifty Industry to imploy my selfe in; having no Stock⟳ to work⟳ on. For Housewifery is a discreet Management, and ordering all in Private, and Household Affaires, seeing nothing spoil’d, or Profusely spent, that every thing has its proper Place⟳, and every Servant his proper Work⟳, and every Work⟳ to be done in its proper Time; to be Neat, and Cleanly, to have⟳ their House quiet from all disturbing Noise. But Thriftiness is something stricter; for good Housewifery may be used in great Expenses; but Thriftiness signifies a Saving, or a getting; as to increase⟳ their Stock⟳, or Estate.”

“When the schoolmaster got back Sue was making a pretence of doing some housewifery as if she lived there.”

“"How you've forgotten," she cried, and ran up to him, rattling her keys and looking grave with housewifery, and I was left alone with the dusk and the familiar things.”

“[…] drafted by circumstance at too soon an age into a pinch-penny housewifery which might have⟳ existed just as well upon a lighthouse rock […]”

“Holonym: householdry”

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