domesticity
Example Sentences
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“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
He’s the un-Rembrandt, a poet of intimate domesticity whose nine paintings here are less than 2 feet per side.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
The two could civilly debate the issues of the day while cheerily disagreeing with each other—serving as a model of bipartisan debate and domesticity.
From Slate • Nov. 1, 2024
But often there were sheets and towels hanging to dry through the bars of windows, and this touch of domesticity always gave them hope.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
