keymaster
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]keymaster (plural keymasters)
- A person in charge of a key or keys.
- 1906, Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Industrial Democracy, page 6:
- 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.