Matronage vs Housewife - What's the difference?
matronage | housewife |
The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; – called also (hussy).
* 1852: Tom Taylor and Charles Reade, Masks and Faces Act II
As nouns the difference between matronage and housewife
is that matronage is the collective body of matrons while housewife is the wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.As a verb housewife is
.matronage
English
(Webster 1913)housewife
English
Noun
(housewives)- Woffington's housewife , made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world