Keymaster

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person in charge of a key or keys.

    "Sometimes, however, we have the archaic box with three locks, so frequent among the gilds; and in such cases members served in rotation as "keymasters," or, as we should now say, trustees."

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"Sometimes, however, we have the archaic box with three locks, so frequent among the gilds; and in such cases members served in rotation as "keymasters," or, as we should now say, trustees."

Etymology

From key + master.

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