Definition of Housekeeps

1. Verb. (third-person singular of housekeep) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Housekeeps

1. housekeep [v] - See also: housekeep

Lexicographical Neighbors of Housekeeps

household products
householder
householders
households
househunting
househusband
househusbands
housekeep
housekeeper
housekeepers
housekeeping
housekeeping gene
housekeeping genes
housekeeping protein
housekeepings
housekeeps (current term)
housekept
housel
houseled
houseleek
houseleeks
houseless
houselessness
houselessnesses
houselights
houselike
houseline
houselines
houseling
houselled

Literary usage of Housekeeps

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"Many housekeeps are crippled in their work by an insufficient supply of spoons, knives and forks. Too often those to be found in the kitchen are worn with ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... connected in some way with the Church: I would hazard a guess that she housekeeps for her brother, who may be a canon or perhaps a rural dean. ..."

3. English Literature in Account with Religion, 1800-1900 by Edward Mortimer Chapman (1910)
"It was — a doubtful song, Its meaning faint or none, but mingled up Of all that nests and housekeeps in the heart,/ Or puts out in lone passion toward the ..."

4. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical by John Cumberland (1828)
"Sol. Yes;—one of the unhappy incendiaries. Tor. Show him into the breakfast-parlour.—And conduct this gentleman to the housekeeps. « room. ..."

5. Our Fellow Shakespeare: How Everyman May Enjoy His Works by Horace James Bridges (1916)
"Shakespeare gives us at the last a doubtful song, Its meaning faint or none, but mingled up Of all that nests and housekeeps in the heart, Or puts out in ..."

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