housecraft

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English

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Etymology

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From house +‎ craft.

Noun

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housecraft (countable and uncountable, plural housecrafts)

  1. The art of homemaking.
    Synonym: homecraft
    • 1916, The School World, volume 18, page 378:
      [] we should hear less of teaching subjects for the sake of faculty, a point in which he was supported by Miss M. Frodsham, who held further that all science teaching in girls' schools should lead up to hygiene and housecraft.