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Housewifery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The function or duties of a housewife; housekeeping.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state of being a housewife

n. Skills as a housewife or homemaker

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The business of the mistress of a household; the woman's part in the economy of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the work of a housewife

Word Usage

"Indeed, a family's ability to hire servant girls and free the mistress for productive work was a sign of its increasing affluence, not its poverty, and most women did not aspire to escape outdoor work and immerse themselves in housewifery."

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work

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