housewifery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of housewifery
First recorded in 1400–50, housewifery is from the late Middle English word huswyfery. See housewife, -ery
Example Sentences
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I said to my girlfriends, "Full-time mothering and housewifery is way harder than what I do for work. Much harder. And there's way more at stake, obviously."
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2022
She told the online publication Literary Hub that the theater company was her opportunity to “leave housewifery behind.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022
But by his side we also have Samuel Richardson, whose novel “Pamela” was a blueprint for how chaste women should behave in the face of avid pursuit, encouraging a zeal for housewifery.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2020
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
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 Ryan, Marah Ellis
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