| 单词 | household goddess |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousehold goddess household goddess n. (a) Mythology a goddess worshipped within, or considered to preside over, the household; a female household god; (b) = domestic goddess n. (b) at domestic adj. and n. Additions. ΚΠ 1671 M. D'Assigny tr. P. Gautruche Poet. Hist. i. ii. 9 They were consecrated to Vesta, as to the chief of the houshold Goddesses. 1791 S. Stearns Amer. Oracle ix. 102 Canopus, an Egyptian god; Cardu, an household goddess; Cardua, a Romish goddess. 1802 tr. S. Gessner Wks. II. 206 Modern dames..take their sweeter revenge, when their lords, forsaking their household-goddesses, have recourse to their more youthful attendants. 1865 J. Doolittle Social Life Chinese I. 116 It is placed in a flower-vase near by the niche which contains the household goddess. 1898 Boston Cooking-school Mag. Dec. 182/2 She can oversee the laundress, And direct the housemaid, too; But, alas!—this household goddess—There's one thing she cannot do. 1992 Ethnology 31 60 Divination revealed that a child's fever was the result of an attack by household goddesses. 2003 News & Rec. (N. Carolina) (Nexis) 11 May d2 Being a household goddess isn't all it's cracked up to be... I'm so sick of cooking that I find myself envying the people eating at the soup kitchen. < as lemmas |
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