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Housewifely

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Befitting a housewife.

    "[…] to make the yong women sobre minded, to loue their husbands to loue their children, to be discrete, chaste, housewifely, good and obediente vnto theyr owne husbands […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    related or suited to a housewife wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English *houswyfely, *houswijfli, *houswiflich, suggested by houswifliche (adverb), equivalent to housewife + -ly.

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