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Definition of Huswifes
1. huswife [n] - See also: huswife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huswifes
Literary usage of Huswifes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"9 Though Ladies may rend and buie new ery day, good huswifes must mend and buie
new as they may. 10 Call quarterly seruants to court and to leete, ..."
2. Emblemes and Epigrames ... by Francis Thynne, Frederick James Furnivall (1876)
"... for of her carding never com[e]th spinningu ; 8 Soe she is a huswife, but noe
good huswife, I trowe, for of good huswifes ..."
3. Emblemes and Epigrames ... by Francis Thynne, Frederick James Furnivall (1876)
"... 8 Soe she is a huswife, but noe good huswife, I trowe, for of good huswifes
... Iohn, thy wife, to live doth take great payne, a good huswifes name ..."
4. Emblemes and Epigrames ... by Francis Thynne, Frederick James Furnivall (1876)
"... 8 Soe she is a huswife, but noe good huswife, I trowe, for of good huswifes
... thy wife, to live doth take great payne, 1 a good huswifes name ..."
5. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"The good huswifes ... to the good huswifes Closet of prouision for her Houshold.
(Woodcut.) Imprinted »t London by Richard Iones. 1594. t'~, black letter, ..."
6. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... good huswifes be mending and ... 9 Though Ladies may rend and buie new ery
day, good huswifes must mend and buie new as they may ..."
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