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housewife
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[ noun ] a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
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[ noun ] (work) a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)More typical is the case of a suburban Long_Island housewife described by a marriage counselor . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)At four o_'_clock , or four thirty , the coming of the newsboy marked the end of the day ; he tossed a paper toward every front_door , and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing . (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)He opened the inner door ; the cooking odors were stronger - all_over the city , at this hour , housewives would be fussing over stoves . |
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