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keymistress

keymistress noun: a woman in charge of a key or keys.

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
    • If we're gonna get him out we'll need the key. A stone cold witch known as Utroka the Keymistress holds on tight to that thing.2010 November 23, World of Warcraft, v4.0.3a, Irvine, Calif.: Blizzard Entertainment, →OCLC, “Jorgensen” quest

Examples of keymistress in a sentence

  • “You have breached the Gates, and come to the edge of the Chasm, and now, you have the chance to win the Key.” […] “So Keymistress,” the witch said.2012, T[imothy] A[aron] Pratt, “Ill Met in Ulthar”, in Paula Guran, editor, Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful, [Gaithersburg, Md.]: Prime...
  • That is why they are attributed with trimorphic character, probably dedicated to the goddess Reitia, who is compared to Hecate, the keymistress of death and resurrection, fertility, etc.2018, Martina Blečić Kavur, “Pectoral Pendants from Grobnik in the Context of the Iron Age Symbol Aesthetics”, in Histria archaeologica...

Forms of keymistress

pluralkeymistresses
alternative formkey-mistress

Origin of keymistress

From key + mistress.

Questions about keymistress

What does keymistress mean?
Keymistress means a woman in charge of a key or keys.
How do you use keymistress in a sentence?
“You have breached the Gates, and come to the edge of the Chasm, and now, you have the chance to win the Key.” […] “So Keymistress,” the witch said.
What part of speech is keymistress?
Keymistress is a noun.
What is the plural of keymistress?
The plural of keymistress is keymistresses.

Words near keymistress in the dictionary

  1. keymasks
  2. keymaster
  3. keymasters
  4. keymen
  5. Keymer
  6. keymistress
  7. keymistresses
  8. keymove
  9. keymoves
  10. Keynes
  11. Keynes effect

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