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housewifery|ˈhaʊswaɪfrɪ, ˈhʌz(w)ɪfrɪ|
Forms: see housewife; also 6–7 -wivery, etc., 6–8 -wifry, etc., 7 husfrey.
[f. as prec. + -ry.]
1. The function or province of a housewife; management of household affairs; domestic economy; housekeeping.
c1440Promp. Parv. 255/1 Huswyfery, yconomia. 1481–4E. Paston in P. Lett. No. 859 III. 279, I deme her mynde hathe ben other weys ocapyed than as to huswyfery. 1550Crowley Way to Wealth (1872) 139 Womanlike behauiour and motherlike housewifry. 1570Tusser (title) A hundreth good pointes of husbandry, lately maried unto a hundreth good poynts of huswifery. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiii. 242 Skilled in housewiferies Of all kinds fitting. 1694R. L'Estrange Fables lxxxvii. 104 The very Point of Manage and Huswiv'ry. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 225 Women of great Figure look upon Huswifery as a City Vertue. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vii. 208 My mother..learned severely right principles of truth, charity, and housewifery.
†b. fig. Thrift, economy; making the most of something. Obs.
1638Brome Antipodes iii. vi. Wks. 1873 III. 288 To cease your huswifry in spinning out The Play at length thus. 1775F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 11 Trying on a coat she was altering in a fit of housewifery.
2. concr. Things pertaining to housekeeping; articles of household use; in quot. 1673–4, economic product. ? Obs.
1552Huloet, Huswiferye, lana et tela. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon i. 79 Amongst the cream-boles did she shine, As Pallas, mongst her Princely huswiferie. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 156 Your Hedge..which shall part your Garden of Huswiferie and Pulse. 1673–4Grew Veget. Trunks vii. §12 Scotch-Cloath, is only the House⁓wifery of the same parts of the Barque of Nettle. 1822L. Hunt Indicator, Old Lady, She..is a great..connoisseur in butcher's meat and all sorts of house-wifery.
3. attrib.
1580Tusser Husb. Introd. (1878) 2 More lessons..Than Huswifery book doth utter or tell. 1891Review of Rev. IV. 584/1 Housewifery schools were established. |