huswifery

English

Etymology

From huswife +‎ -ery?

Noun

huswifery (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of housewifery (“the business of a housewife, female homemaking”).
    • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
      : Good huswifery loveth
      Her household to tend.
      Ill huswifery wanteth,
      With spending too fast

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