What is "housewives"

Usage examples of "housewives".

The jury included a nurse, three housewives, a building contractor, two factory workers, an air force airman, a bookkeeper, a speech pathologist, a state highway department worker, and a self-employed businessman.

There was a stout man in front of her and a motley collection of housewives, girls going home from the office and one or two idle city gents hedging her in.

There were people about, too, housewives, and children playing in the street, and solid men going about their business.

Windows were opening as vendors put out their wares for display, or housewives opened up their homes to the morning air and sun.

Madame, that you place your faith in someone like myself, rather than the housewives of your social circle.