"house-keeper" meaning in English

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Noun

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, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

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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        {
          "ref": "1814, Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, The Beauties of England and Wales, page 443:",
          "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": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 203:",
          "text": "[…] left alone to bear the worrying of Mrs. Norris, who was cross because the house-keeper would have her own way with the supper, and whom she could not avoid though the house-keeper might, Fanny was worn down at last to think every thing an evil belonging to the ball, […]",
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          "ref": "1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 17:",
          "text": "It is intended as a means of rendering house-keepers thinking beings, and not as they have hitherto often been, mere pieces of mechanism; or, what is little better, the mere creatures of habit or slaves of custom.",
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          "ref": "1814, Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, The Beauties of England and Wales, page 443:",
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