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housewifery

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house·wif·er·y  (houswf-r, -wfr)
n.
The function or duties of a housewife; housekeeping.
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Noun1.housewifery - the work of a housewife
work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
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It showed an eagerness for adventure, a readiness for the hand-to-mouth, which the care she took of her home and her love of good housewifery made not a little remarkable.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
“You perceive, my child, how much we are indebted to Remarkable for her skill in housewifery.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Beautiful as Mrs Kenwigs looked when she was dressed though, and so stately that you would have supposed she had a cook and housemaid at least, and nothing to do but order them about, she had a world of trouble with the preparations; more, indeed, than she, being of a delicate and genteel constitution, could have sustained, had not the pride of housewifery upheld her.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
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