All 6 Uses of
domestic
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay.†
Chpt 2.1
- From these decayed sons and daughters of Gaul, she had acquired such wonderful arts, that the woman and girl who formed the staff of domestics regarded her as quite a Sorceress, or Cinderella's Godmother: who would send out for a fowl, a rabbit, a vegetable or two from the garden, and change them into anything she pleased.†
Chpt 2.6
- Thirty horses stood in his stables, twenty-four male domestics sat in his halls, six body-women waited on his wife.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- All this while, Defarge, with his pipe in his mouth, walked up and down, complacently admiring, but never interfering; in which condition, indeed, as to the business and his domestic affairs, he walked up and down through life.†
Chpt 2.16
- When Doctor Manette was released, you, his old domestic, had the charge of him, I know.†
Chpt 2.16 *
- Partly on this account, and partly to avoid a domestic spy, they kept no servant; the citizen and citizeness who acted as porters at the courtyard gate, rendered them occasional service; and Jerry (almost wholly transferred to them by Mr. Lorry) had become their daily retainer, and had his bed there every night.†
Chpt 3.7
Definitions:
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(domestic as in: domestic happiness) relating to a home or family
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(domestic as in: the domestic market) relating to a home country
or (much more rarely,): relating to a geographic area that is smaller than a country