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houseslave en · NOUN

Etymology

From house + slave.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of house slave.
   alt of house slave
   • A Sense of Humor Is the Houseslave's Salvation (section title) 1957, John Albert Schindler, Woman's Guide to Better Living 52 Weeks a Year, page 47:
   • The usual laundry soap commercial portrays only the idiotic houseslave, not how she got that way, or how uninteresting and unchallenging her life ultimately is. 2012, Fred R. Berger, edited by Bruce Russell, Freedom, Rights And Pornography: A Collection of Papers, page 118
   • As a houseslave, he was exposed to (or could overhear) prodigious sermons... 1991, Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Slave's Narrative, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 205:

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