household arts
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.27 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Meronym: housework"
- "For the Phaeacian women as far exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that country did the rest of mankind in the management of ships."
- "The Vicar's wife was much the same, In fairer form presented— A lively, yet a quiet dame, With home, sweet home, contented. In parish, needs; and household arts, A lesson to this glib age; Well versed in pickles, jams, and tarts, Piano, chess, and cribbage."
- "The Moroccan lady knows little of cooking, needlework or any household arts."
- "The inventory collectively amounts to the ingredients of an ideally wholesome, happy home — tools for a set of forgotten skills, tastes and virtues I casually refer to as “the household arts” — a medium that includes warm sheets stacked on ironing boards, pies cooling on windowsills, Mason jars full of last summer’s gooseberries, and cans of Old Dutch Cleanser under the sink."