Definition of domestic science
: a subject or class that teaches skills (such as cooking or sewing) which are useful in the home : home economics The girls weren't supposed to be good at "maths," so we took arithmetic, and while the boys were spending long hours studying maths we took needlework and domestic science instead.— Denny Taylor
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The first known use of domestic science was in 1852
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