"house-keeper" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: house-keepers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} house-keeper (plural house-keepers)
  1. Archaic form of housekeeper. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: housekeeper
    Sense id: en-house-keeper-en-noun-xwfJgL2k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper",
          "text": "PERMIT me honoured Madam to lay before you, a Work, for which I am ambitious of obtaining your Ladyſhip’s Approbation, as much as to oblige a great Number of my Friends, who are well acquainted with the Practice I have had in the Art of Cookery, ever ſince I left your Ladyſhip’s Family, and have often ſollicited me to publiſh for the Inſtruction of their Houſe-keepers.",
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          "text": "Before any person can become a Tackle Porter he must give bond with four sufficient house-keepers as sureties, for 500l. to make restitution for any loss or damage that may be sustained through his neglect or connivance.",
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          "ref": "1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 17",
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