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What does housewifery mean?

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Noun
  1. The state or activity of being a housewife; household management, domestic skills. [from 15th c.]
  2. (obsolete) Household goods. [16th-19th c.]
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She ate and drank the same things on a weekly cycle, observing the economies and the details of good housewifery.
Because the Pioneer Woman's housewifery is distinctly rural, it is exotic to her readers, many of whom log on from suburban or urban locales.
Instead of brick courtyards and side-lit rooms where music is played and good housewifery rules, we have boats, meads, cows, horsemen and horsewomen.
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor indeed any earthly occupation, but that of dressing their hair, and adorning their bodies.
They cannot champion gun ownership or housewifery because their theories pathologize those choices.
The needlewoman's workbasket holds further associations with home, hearth, mothering and goodly housewifery.

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