domesticity
Example Sentences
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What it says about America: Wartime nostalgia and postwar domesticity codified the modern American holiday season.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026
“Home music-making was at the core of Victorian domesticity, and a woman—wife, mother, daughter—considered the ‘angel in the home,’ would have been sitting at the genteel parlor piano playing this tune,” says Fink.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
“Are you kidding? I want this preserved. They'll be thrilled to see any sign of domesticity on my part,” Jen said.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
