Housewives
['haʊswaɪvz]
Examples
- Many housewives look askance at ready-made baking powders and prefer to bake with soda and sour milk, soda and buttermilk, or soda and cream of tartar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mrs. Whimple, said Herbert, when I told him so, is the best of housewives, and I really do not know what my Clara would do without her motherly help. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Before the housewives could rest, several people called, and there was a scramble to get ready to see them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some thrifty housewives economize by utilizing the cooling effects of evaporation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Others are used by newsboys, egg farmers, housewives, undertakers, dentists, judges in automobile races, and by persons in a thousand different lines of business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Lorna