household art

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of household art¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Do you think they'll get an idea of household art by coming here?

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

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Certainly not to her mother, who possessed in its perfection, the household art of misinterpreting everything.

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Fig. 26 represents a chair which I have taken the liberty of borrowing from Mr. Eastlake's work on household art.

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