Housecraft

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The art of homemaking. countable, uncountable

    "[…] we should hear less of teaching subjects for the sake of faculty, a point in which he was supported by Miss M. Frodsham, who held further that all science teaching in girls' schools should lead up to hygiene and housecraft."

  2. 2
    skill in domestic management wordnet

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homecraft

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"[…] we should hear less of teaching subjects for the sake of faculty, a point in which he was supported by Miss M. Frodsham, who held further that all science teaching in girls' schools should lead up to hygiene and housecraft."

Etymology

From house + -craft.

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