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Definition of Housekeepers
1. housekeeper [n] - See also: housekeeper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housekeepers
Literary usage of Housekeepers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domestic Service by Lucy Maynard Salmon (1897)
"It is often proposed to call together a convention of housekeepers to discuss
... Other housekeepers seriously advocate abolishing the public schools above ..."
2. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better
customs in the place of the old. You need not rest your reputation on the ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"housekeepers and domestic servants. Not excessive. The following verdicts for
injuries impairing the ability of housekeepers or domestic servants to labor ..."
4. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"It is of a mild temperature, produces much maize and papas ; contains 25 housekeepers
and 70 Indians, who manufacture large and small hampers, by which they ..."
5. Memoirs of Father Ripa During Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of by Matteo Ripa (1855)
"These brown housekeepers generally attach themselves so sincerely to the interests
of their protectors, and make themselves so useful, that they commonly ..."
6. The World's Congress of Representative Women: A Historical Résumé for by May Wright Sewall (1894)
"It was not our intention to confine our work to Chicago, and for this reason we
adopted the name of the "Columbian Association of housekeepers. ..."
7. The Vocational Education of Girls and Women by Albert H. Leake (1918)
"\Part-time instruction for housekeepers. In the industrial training of boys ...
There are many housekeepers who find themselves unequal to the tasks they ..."
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