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huswifery en · NOUN

Etymology

From huswife + -ery?

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete spelling of housewifery (“the business of a housewife, female homemaking”).
    • : Good huswifery loveth Her household to tend. Ill huswifery wanteth, With spending too fast 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: