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Housewifely

adjective
1.
Related or suited to a housewife.





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"Housewifely" Quotes from Famous Books



... scented a fact. 'But what does she lecture you about? The dinner?' she asked, with an irrelevant recollection of Drake's impression of Clarice as one little adapted for housewifely duties, and not rightly to ...
— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason
... questions, and I vouchsafed no remark, devoting myself to Wolf Larsen's command, which was to make her comfortable. I bustled about in quite housewifely fashion, procuring soothing lotions for her sunburn, raiding Wolf Larsen's private stores for a bottle of port I knew to be there, and directing Thomas Mugridge in the preparation of the ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... delivering to Aldonza the message and token, when he overtook her on the stairs of the house at Chelsea, carrying up a lapful of roses to the still-room, where Dame Alice More was rejoicing in setting her step-daughters to housewifely tasks. ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... imitative class. And now Dash and May follow us everywhere, and are going with us to the Shaw, as I said before—or rather to the cottage by the Shaw, to bespeak milk and butter of our little dairy-woman, Hannah Bint—a housewifely occupation, to which we owe some ...
— Our Village • Mary Russell Mitford


Words linked to "Housewifely" :   housewife, domestic


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