household art

American  

noun

1. any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.

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Etymology

Origin of household art

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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household art

For the new household art of mechanical dehydration, engineers and food chemists have worked out a home food dryer that can be used in any kitchen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fred fluctuated between office and city, quite a prophet of household art, welcomed warmly back to the old circles which had so quietly dropped him for a while.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Its original designers were masters who made standards in architectural and pictorial as well as household art.

From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Candace Wheeler

Once launched on the sea of household art, she found herself in a torturing maze.

From Together by Robert Herrick

We are beginning to see how much more sensible the Chippendale and other styles commended by Eastlake and some other writers on household art are to much that has been produced in later times.

From The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Various