| 单词 | housewife sister |
| 释义 | > as lemmashousewife sister b. Appositive, as housewife mother, housewife sister, etc.; also figurative. ΚΠ 1762 C. Churchill Ghost iii. 57 It was the Hour, when Huswife Morn With Pearl and Linnen hangs each thorn. a1844 J. Sterling Ess. & Tales (1848) I. 23 In May, the youths of Domremy sang and danced,..ate the cakes of their housewife mothers, [etc.]. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 138 The housewife bee and humming-bird. 1964 N. Simon Barefoot in Park ii. i. 60 All I'm saying is, we don't have to come right out and introduce her as ‘my dull 50-year-old housewife mother’. 1977 R. M. Fields Northern Ireland (1980) v. 104 A group of nuns..whose intellectual vigor denoted a degree of liberation lacking in their housewife sisters. 2010 Sunday Star (Nexis) 24 Jan. 31 [She] was too ashamed to confess her sexual persuasion to her banker dad and housewife mum. < as lemmas |
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