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keeperess rare.|ˈkiːpərɪs|
[f. keeper n. + -ess.]
A female keeper or custodian. b. A woman who keeps a man.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VI. 359 (D.) Hardly ever, I dare say, was there a keeper that did not make a keeperess; who lavished away on her kept-fellow what she obtained from..him who kept her. 1863Reade Hard Cash III. 66 The keeperesses eclipsed the keepers in cruelty to the poorer patients. |