| 释义 |
mothercraft|ˈmʌðəkrɑːft, -æ-|
[f. mother n.1 + craft n.]
The ‘craft’ or business of a mother; knowledge of, and skill in, the care of children. Also attrib.
1911Progress VI. 52 St. Pancras School..aims..to become ‘a school for mothercraft’. 1914Times 25 Apr. 10/3 The School of Mothercraft. 1917B. Vaughan Menace Empty Cradle 44 How much better it would be to teach them mothercraft. 1922Daily Mail 28 Oct. 7 A Mothercraft question set by the Association of Infant Welfare. 1945[see Karitane]. 1969Sydney Morning Herald 7 June 4/2 A man wearing a white stocking mask with eye-slits stuck a pistol into the ribs of a mothercraft nurse in a $14,200 payroll robbery at the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, yesterday. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 7/6 As the mother of a child in the Mothercraft nursery may I be permitted to clear the distorted view some of your..readers have. |