单词 | domestic goddess |
释义 | > as lemmasdomestic goddess domestic goddess n. (a) Mythology a goddess who presides over a household or (more generally) the home; (b) a woman likened to a goddess of the home, spec. one who is admired or adored for her domestic skills (later esp. cooking); an idealized housewife or homemaker. ΚΠ 1828 H. H. Wilson Mackenzie Coll. II. 45 Krishna desired his younger sister Máyá to go and stay..in the city of Mahisur as the domestic goddess of the kings who were his relations. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xii. 97 The heroic female character which ladies admire is a more glorious and beautiful object than the kind, fresh, smiling, artless, tender little domestic goddess, whom men are inclined to worship. 1881 M. J. Holmes Madeline xx. 325 His room was in perfect order, as was everything about the house, showing that Flora was still the domestic goddess. 1927 M. P. Nilsson Minoan-Mycenaean Relig. 284 This gloomy goddess and no other was venerated in the interior of the houses and in the shrines of the palaces as the special domestic goddess. 2000 N. Lawson (title) How to be a domestic goddess: baking and the art of comfort cooking. 2006 P. Williams Rise & Fall Yummy Mummy xxiv. 175 I am no domestic goddess—my main culinary trick involves pureeing carrot. < as lemmas |
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