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- noun Alternative spelling of
homemaking .
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Examples
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Just reading how someone did a bit of ironing or cake-making or anything home-making related inspires me.
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If your calling is home-making, that's another issue ... but even in the 50s I think most unmarried women had jobs or were in school.
Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing 2009
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The housewife realizes that home-making is an investment in happiness.
Archive 2008-10-01 Linda 2008
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And yes, while some women rejected home-making as a hopelessly dead-end life, there were many of us feminists who were both politically savvy gender-wise and proudly in touch with the skills of our mothers and grandmothers.
Ellen Snortland: Shop Locally, Not Globally Ellen Snortland 2010
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I have been surprised by what my heart has told me - that I am happiest as a mother and wife, home-making.
The Better Part 2008
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The housewife realizes that home-making is an investment in happiness.
The Symphony of Supper-Time Linda 2008
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And yes, while some women rejected home-making as a hopelessly dead-end life, there were many of us feminists who were both politically savvy gender-wise and proudly in touch with the skills of our mothers and grandmothers.
Ellen Snortland: Shop Locally, Not Globally Ellen Snortland 2010
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The housewife's job is home-making, and she is, in fact, 'making the best of it'; making the best of it by bringing patience and loving care to her work; sympathy and understanding to her family; making the best of it by seeing all the fun in the day's incidents and human relationships.
The Symphony of Supper-Time Linda 2008
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"The bigger picture of the last 50 years is that we've taken girls 'education much more seriously than we did – 50 years ago girls were not going to have a career, they would leave schools and move into motherhood and home-making."
GCSE results: Record results see pass rates rise for 23rd year in a row 2010
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The housewife's job is home-making, and she is, in fact, 'making the best of it'; making the best of it by bringing patience and loving care to her work; sympathy and understanding to her family; making the best of it by seeing all the fun in the day's incidents and human relationships.
Archive 2008-10-01 Linda 2008
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