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noun

Housekeeper n.

One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.

One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household. (Obs.)

One who keeps or stays much at home. (R.) "You are manifest housekeeper."

A house dog. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Housekeeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... to see the sights of the village, madame?" asked Vavel of the mother, after they had partaken of the lunch prepared by the pastor's housekeeper. The young lady, who was exhausted by the journey, had gone to her room. "There is a very old ...

— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai

... was a housekeeper in a nobleman's family," she said, "and she was given that cloth and two or three more like it. I have 'em in the linen-chest upstairs, and I wouldn't part with 'em ...

— The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... lady. The way I found it out was this. Miss Jones, she's our housekeeper, sent a message to her one day by Bertha Reed and me about some pickles. Bertha is awful timid, and she didn't know whether or not we ought to go to the front door; but I did, and I ...

— Mary Cary - "Frequently Martha" • Kate Langley Bosher

... mansion sufficiently commodious to allow of their hospitalities. This made it impossible for them to keep any servant save a little girl who washed the dishes, and consequently Grisell acted as cook, housekeeper, housemaid, washerwoman, laundress, dressmaker, and tailoress. Twice a week she sat up at night to do the family accounts. Daily she rose before six, went to the market and to the mill to see their own corn ground, and—in the words of her daughter, ...

— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... of the Spanish quarter, a gloomy and shabby room or two, with the faded American flags over the doorway clutched in the carven claws of a still more faded eagle. And he had waited for two patient hours, enduring the suspicious scowls of a lean and hawk-like Spanish housekeeper, to discover, at the end, that the American Consul had been riding at hounds, with the garrison Hunt Club. And when the Consul, having duly chased a stunted little Spanish fox all the way from Legnia to Algeciras, returned to his official quarters, in English riding-breeches ...

— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer

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