Housewifery

Housewifery. Oed's earliest evidence for housewifery is from 1440, in promptorium. Housewifery throughout the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century, the continual attempts to utilise developments from the industrial sector in the.

There are fourmeanings listed in oed’s entry for the noun housewife, two of which are labelled obsolete. Thy holy worde my distaff make for mee.