Domesticity
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Domesticity
See also Wifeliness.
Crocker, Bettyleading 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]
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