单词 | housewifery book |
释义 | > as lemmashousewifery book General attributive, as housewifery book, housewifery duty, housewifery school, etc. ΚΠ 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) facing f. 1 Mo lessons..Than huswiferie booke, doth vtter or tell. 1677 A. Behn Town-fopp i. i. 3 [To] have the consolation, of seeing your frugal Huswifery Miss, sit in the Pit, at a Play, in a long Scarf, and Night-gown, for want of Points, and Garniture. 1712 J. Norris Profitable Advice for Rich & Poor 17 These People are bought to Employ them in..what ever their Masters..have occasion to be done; the Townsman for his Business, and the Country Farmer..about their Husbandry, or Houswifery Business. 1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding iii. vi. 40 I have a set of the courtliest phrases in my huswifry book! I'll con them by heart. 1843 Eclectic Museum Jan. 137/2 The English housewifery practice of combining sugar with salt in the meat-curing. 1858 E. C. Grey Cousin Harry I. xviii. 164 The housewifery duties..gave her as much exercise as she could very comfortably get through. 1891 Rev. of Reviews 4 584/1 Housewifery schools were established. 1906 Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/1 It is a fashion now for girls leaving school to finish with a housewifery course. 1988 E. J. Perkins Econ. Colonial Amer. (ed. 2) vi. 141 Housewifery duties were more varied and included..milking cows, feeding swine,..making butter and cheese, [etc.]. 2000 Jrnl. Women's Hist. (Nexis) 12 137 Nurses largely had become the experts to which the new housewifery schools referred, and whom they employed. < as lemmas |
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