Lexicographical Neighbors of Housewiferies
Literary usage of Housewiferies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey by Homer (1903)
"The loom and distaff, and your maids command To ply their housewiferies : but
speech shall stand For men to handle, ..."
2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1909)
"Howbeit go to thy chamber and mind thine own housewiferies, the loom and distaff,
and bid thy handmaids ply their tasks. But speech shall be 'for men, ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward Bagby Pollard, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1907)
"Telemachus gently rebukes his mother for interrupting the song of the minstrel,
and bids her return to her chamber and to her own housewiferies, ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Howbeit go to thy chamber and mind thine own housewiferies, the loom and distaff,
and bid thy handmaids ply their tasks. But speech shall be for men, ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Chapman. in housewiferies Of all kind fitting ; and withal a trivet, that en-
The trivet table of a foot was lame; A blot which prudent Baucis overcame, ..."
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