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/haʊsˈmʌðə(ɹ)/ · noun
The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community..
At length, the aged house-mother died, or rather slept away into the other world, without pain or sickness, from absolute decay; leaving her solitary partner to mourn her loss, and with an unfeigned longing to join her in the grave.
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Housemother means The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community..
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At length, the aged house-mother died, or rather slept away into the other world, without pain or sickness, from absolute decay; leaving her solitary partner to mourn her loss, and with an unfeigned longing to join her in the grave.
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