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See also: lighthouse keeper

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lighthouse +‎ keeper.

Noun

lighthousekeeper (plural lighthousekeepers)

  1. Alternative form of lighthouse keeper.
    • 1994, Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination:
      Because she was from the Alentejo, remarked the Lighthousekeeper's Wife, that's why she could do sopa alentejana.
    • 2003, Peter Ridgway Watt, Joseph Green, The Alternative Sherlock Holmes:
      After this sparkling gambit, Wilson tells Holmes he has taken up the job of lighthouse-keeper at Little-Tooting-by-the-Sea, which illuminates a passage between the mainland and the island of Uffa,
    • 2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today:
      Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts.
    • 2010, Carl MacDougall, The Devil and the Giro:
      But I heroworship lighthousekeepers. No. Envy is closer. Or maybe jealousy.
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