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Domesticity See also Wifeliness. Crocker, Betty leading brand of baking products; byword for one expert in homemaking skills. [Trademarks: Crowley Trade, 56] series on the vicissitudes of middle-class living. [TV: Terrace, I, 208–209] joys and sorrows of a pediatrician and his family. [TV: Terrace, I, 220] family life in the Stone Age. [TV: Terrace, I, 271–273] symbol of home life. [Folklore: Jobes, 738] nuts and bolts of American working-class life. [TV: Terrace, I, 365–366] song of love of home popular during World War I. [Music: Scholes, 549] tranquil life in suburbia (1957-1963). [TV: Terrace II, 18] devoted wife and mother. [Children’s Lit.: Little Women] patroness of housewives and cooks. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewster, 345]
trials and tribulations of womanless household. [TV: Terrace, II, 131–132] depicting home life, American style. [TV: “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” in Terrace, I, 34–35] symbolizes domestic virtue. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] female spirit who does household chores. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 364–365] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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To preserve an unbroken domesticity was essential to his peace of mind; he would not have known where his hair-brushes were, or how to provide stamps for his letters, if Mrs. Now I go in for domesticity, and look after my family. Against this rude form of domesticity were opposed the chromo-tinted dresses and extravagant complexions of a few single unattended women--happily seen more often at night behind gilded bars than in the garish light of day--and an equal number of pale-faced, dark-moustached, well-dressed, and suspiciously idle men. |
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