huswifery

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English

Etymology

From huswife +‎ -ery?

Noun

huswifery (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The business of a housewife; female homemaking.
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: Robert Triphook, , and William Sancho, , 1810, →OCLC:
      : Good huswifery loveth
      Her household to tend.
      Ill huswifery wanteth,
      With spending too fast

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “huswifery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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