Definition of housekeeper
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Examples of housekeeper in a Sentence
the bachelor doctor could easily afford to hire a housekeeper to cook and clean
Recent Examples of housekeeper from the Web
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Then comes more than 200 pages of Conway’s book, set in the 1950s village of Saxby-on-Avon, where a busybody housekeeper falls to her death down a flight of stairs and nasty Sir Magnus Pye loses his head (literally) in a gruesome murder.
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The novel makes too much use of shopworn archetypes—a seductive housekeeper, a self-sacrificing prostitute—but Altan deftly pushes the tropes of detective fiction into existentialist territory.
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The housekeeper paused near Bacon holding a wispy white garment.
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In L.A. Mable, who worked as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills, became the family rock, according to Burton and her younger brother Rickey Ivie, a Los Angeles attorney.
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His widowed mother was the housekeeper for Professor Bullfinch, who was Danny’s mentor and friend, and was constantly inventing things.
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First Known Use of housekeeper
1607
HOUSEKEEPER Defined for English Language Learners
housekeeper
playDefinition of housekeeper for English Language Learners
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: a person whose job is to manage the cooking, cleaning, etc., in a house
HOUSEKEEPER Defined for Kids
housekeeper
playDefinition of housekeeper for Students
: a person employed to take care of a house
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