housewifery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of housewifery
First recorded in 1400–50, housewifery is from the late Middle English word huswyfery. See housewife, -ery
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She told the online publication Literary Hub that the theater company was her opportunity to “leave housewifery behind.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022
Her life is airless, packed with stultifying tasks: “Japanese motherhood and its attendant housewifery is a cult,” says Mizuki.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
The tension between socially acceptable housewifery and creative ambition is certainly easy to find in Jackson’s life, but it’s rather harder to locate in her fiction.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
Their friends and neighbors, attracted by the games, food, and company, attended as a respite from the tedium of housewifery.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2014
There was evidently some decided incongruity between the old Scotchman's statement and his quaint housewifery, as he wrapped a cloth reduced to strings around a fork and washed out a coffee-pot with the improvised mop.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
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