homekeeping

English

Etymology

From home +‎ keeping.

Adjective

homekeeping (not comparable)

1. Staying at home.
   • 1860, The Dublin University Magazine, volume 56, page 678:

     Forty years ago, if any aspiring Protheus, conceiving that “home-keeping youths have ever homely wits,” desired to cross the Channel, he had two ways open to him.

   • 1941, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Familiar Faces: Stories of People You Know:

     Nellie was a homekeeping woman, and a trip to Indiana would mean something to her.

Noun

homekeeping (uncountable)

1. Synonym of housekeeping (“looking after domestic affairs in a house”)

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