goodwife in English

noun
1
the female head of a household.
Farmers and artisans, goodwives and slaves - ‘the people most exposed to fortune's slings and arrows’ - adhered to an ‘ethic of fortune’ that violated Protestant orthodoxy.

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1. 5 See them, goodwife laughed childishly not self-consciously.

2. What reflect goodwife adequately on design style is decorous and free from vulgarity.

3. Can reflect the important trait of goodwife grade, still include arrangement to be in aside fireplace, although be in southern, but fireplace a bit of white does not appear abruptness.

4. He's expected at night, and the pasty's made hot, They broach the brown ale, and they fill the black pot, And the goodwife would wish the goodman in the mire, Ere he lack'd a soft pillow, the Barefooted Friar