"game-keeper" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: game-keepers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} game-keeper (plural game-keepers)
  1. Alternative form of gamekeeper. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: gamekeeper
    Sense id: en-game-keeper-en-noun-fi3sXit7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1823, \"Select Society, With Observations on the Modern Art of Matchmaking\", in The New Monthly Magazine,by C. M., pub. E. W. Allen,, volume 8 pages 91-92",
          "text": "Then, Alas! any body was company for every body and the first lord of the land did not think it shame, faute de mieux, to take up with the conversation of his butler, or his game-keeper, over a tankard; while the young ladies, faute de tout, danced \"Bobbing Joan,\" with the rest of the domestics in the servants' hall."
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