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boxkeepers

boxkeepers is the plural of boxkeeper.

Meaning of boxkeeper

Noun

boxkeeper (plural boxkeepers)

  1. (historical) A theatre attendant in charge of the boxes.
    • I descended, escorted by the fruit-woman, who desired a box-keeper to open the door of Mrs Pott's box […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 255

Questions about boxkeepers

What is boxkeepers the plural of?
Boxkeepers is the plural of boxkeeper.

Words near boxkeepers in the dictionary

  1. boxing up
  2. boxing week
  3. boxing weeks
  4. boxings
  5. boxkeeper
  6. boxkeepers
  7. boxla
  8. boxless
  9. boxlessness
  10. Boxley
  11. Boxleys

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