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Definition of Goodwives
1. goodwife [n] - See also: goodwife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goodwives
Literary usage of Goodwives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"Those goodwives have no husband ? Read my, etc.—Two Angelicas. 19. Who are the
maids that fight weaponless around their lord : the brown ever sheltering, ..."
2. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"Those goodwives have no husband? Read my, etc.—Two Angelical. 20. Who are the
merry maids that glide above the land to the joy of their father; ..."
3. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1895)
"Under Mrs. Earle's guidance," says the New Yoik Times, " the Colonial dames and
goodwives again hangout their samplers on the outward walls. ..."
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