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household art

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

First recorded in 1920–25
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How to use household art in a sentence

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

    Brenda's Bargain|Helen Leah Reed
  • Its original designers were masters who made standards in architectural and pictorial as well as household art.

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

    The Paliser case|Edgar Saltus
  • 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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