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house-keeper en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, dated) Dated form of housekeeper.
   alt of housekeeper
   • 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. 1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper:
   • 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. 1814, Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, The Beauties of England and Wales, page 443:
   • […] 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, […] 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 203:
   • 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. 1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 17:
   • Our model house-keeper minded closely her own business, never moving about or rootching around in what did not concern her. 1870, American Educational Monthly, page 332:

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