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key-mistress

key-mistress is the alternative form of keymistress.

Meaning of keymistress

Noun

keymistress (plural keymistresses)

  1. A woman in charge of a key or keys.
    • Attempting to recapture the mood, two weeks after returning to Australia, we paid $6 for a scoop of the salty black hundreds-and-thousands lumpfish roe they call “caviar” in this country (that is, unless you summon the keymistress to unlock the treasures in David Jones Food Hall refrigerator and...1987 February 10, Tigger Wise, “Leningrad to Moscow on caviar”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 46,526, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Good Living” section, page 3, column 1

Forms of key-mistress

pluralkey-mistresses

Questions about key-mistress

What is key-mistress the alternative form of?
Key-mistress is the alternative form of keymistress.

Words near key-mistress in the dictionary

  1. key-chains
  2. key-cold
  3. key-fruit
  4. key-fruits
  5. key-keeper
  6. key-mistress
  7. key-mistresses
  8. key-money
  9. key-pad
  10. key-pads
  11. key-value

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Adapted from Wiktionary: key-mistress (page history and authors); keymistress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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