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

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

They also have a department of home management, home economy, social culture, household art and domestic hygiene, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, preceptor.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted

It has become the household art of to-day.

From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Moore, Aubertine Woodward

The multifarious materials upon which household art can employ itself are reduced to the few absolute essentials.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by Fowler, William Worthington

She would have pitted her hair-cloth furniture of the ugliest period of household art against all the Chippendales and First Empire pieces in existence.

From The Portion of Labor by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins