housekeeping keys
now chiefly historical
noun
House keys, especially those for various rooms or cupboards used for domestic purposes, traditionally in the charge of the female head of a household employing servants.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- quartermastering
- quartermaster sergeant
- quartermastership
- quarter-mile
- quarter-miler
- quartermistress
- quarter moon
- quartern
- quarter-night
- quartern loaf
- quarter note
- quarter of an hour
- quarter-pace
- quarter partition
- quarter peal
- quarter piece
- quarter-pierced
- quarter pipe
- quarter plate
- quarter-ply
- quarter point
- quarter pole
- quarter post
- quarter-pounder
- quarter-race