What is "housewive"

Usage examples of "housewive".

Within two or three successive seconds, millions of people in widely separated areas-factory and office workers, farmers, housewives, shoppers, salesclerks, restaurant operators, printers, service station attendants, stock-brokers, hoteliers, hairdressers, movie projectionists and patrons, streetcar motormen, TV station staffs and viewers, bartenders, mail sorters, wine makers, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pinball players .

In northern New England it is considered a sign of summer when the housewives fill the fireplaces with branches of mountain laurel, and, later, with the feathery stalks of the asparagus.

North End hard guys, pimply kids with electric noserings, denial-ridden housewives and etc.

People in all walks of life, from libidinous Cabinet Ministers to adulterous housewives, have been the object of blackmailsome of whom have made headlines, with a great many more who have not.

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.

And when on the treeless Neuer Markt a gust of wind had ruffled his mane, he reached for the little brush in the ample pocket of his jacket and, while publicly dressing his astonishing hair, quickly acquired an audience: housewives, schoolchildren, ourselves.

He wrote it about the students and the housewives and the barbers and the farmers and the privates in the Army.

Leonard Petrie kept on 75 towards Atlanta, but even as they drove north-west, away from the polluted eastern shores, they saw suburbs where dead housewives lay on the sidewalks, towns where fires burned untended, abandoned cars and trucks, looted stores, blazing farmland, rotting bodies.

Teflon frying pans to housewives or Velcro hold-fast fabrics to vaudeville performers, enabling them to appear in funny break-away costumes.

The housewives in the wynds were fetching water from the pumps--he caught the distant clack of their tongues.

He was one of those preposterous phenomena which afflict the public once in a generation like an epidemic: he resembled no other performer, living or dead, and indeed there was a cadre of diehards which forlornly maintained that he was not a performer at all, but millions of 100 per cent American housewives would have taken a Trappist vow sooner than they would have missed their daily dose of Ziggy Zaglan.