Definition of Huswives

1. huswife [n] - See also: huswife

Lexicographical Neighbors of Huswives

hustings
hustle-bustle
hustle alarm
hustle and bustle
hustled
hustlers
hustles
hustling
hustlings
huswife
huswifely
huswifery
huswifes
huswives (current term)
hut
hutch
hutch bladder diverticulum
hutched
hutches
hutching
hutchinson's melanotic freckle
hutchinson syndrome
hutchinsonite
hutchlike
hutchunsonian
hutia
hutias
hutlike

Literary usage of Huswives

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

1. Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on by Nathan Drake (1838)
"From Aprill begin til saint Andrew be past : во long with good huswives ... dairies doe last. good huswives know best all the rest how to guide. ..."

2. Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on by Nathan Drake (1817)
"But huswives, that learne not to make their owne cheese: with trusting of others, have dies for their feese. Their milke slapt in corners their creame al to ..."

3. Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet by Nathan Drake (1843)
"From Aprill begin til saint Andrew be past : во long with good huswives their dairies doe last. good huswives know best all the rest how to guide. ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"Commonly called the good huswives Closet of provision for the health of her ... to ' good huswives ; ' they mention fourpence as the price of the book. ..."

5. Colonial Prose and Poetry by William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells (1903)
"But country huswives, and poor men's wives, whose husbands have no Officers, Bailiffs, or Stewards, to oversee and order their estates, they may carry the ..."

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