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/hˈaʊskˌipɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Housekeeping n.

The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. (Obs.) "Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry? Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe."

adjective

Housekeeping adj. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.

verb

house-keep, housekeep v. i. To take care of all household-related business.

Synonyms: house-keep, maintain a household, keep house.

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Etymology of 'Housekeeping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Housekeeping" Quotes from Famous Books

... they are,' said he. 'It's all very well for you. They are awfully fond of you. You and my mother can talk about Archie and his nurse and housekeeping and fashions, and it's very jolly for you, but where's the fun for a ...

— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson

... while the attractive Yvette de Marcie turned her into the street without her wages. It was while delivering bread one morning to an atelier in the rue des Dames, that she chanced to meet a young painter who was looking for a good femme de menage to relieve his artistic mind from the worries of housekeeping. Little Alice fairly cried when the good painter told her she might come at twenty francs a month, which was more money than this very grateful and brave little Brittany girl had ever ...

— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith

... in a small one-room house in the midst of a cotton field on the plantation of Mr. A. M. Owens, ten miles southeast of Winnsboro, S. C. He lives alone and does his own cooking and housekeeping. He is a bright mulatto, has an erect carriage and posture, appears younger than his age, is intelligent and enjoys recounting the tales of his lifetime. His own race doesn't give him much countenance. His friends ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various

... If ever her brother or his wife had the least qualms of conscience about her removal from the Lodge to Avonside, they would have been dispelled by the sight of the dear little fat woman trotting about, the picture of content, full of housekeeping plans, and schemes for her poultry-yard, her pigeon- house, and her green-house. As for her garden, it was a source of perpetual pride, wonder, and delight. The three years which she had spent at the Lodge—which, in her secret heart, she owned were rather dull ...

— Christian's Mistake • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... little personality to him. In fact, their love-affair, so far as they understood it, apart from its elemental impulses which they did not understand, was as much of a play to them as the apple-tree housekeeping ...

— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland

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