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- noun Plural form of
bathkeeper .
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Examples
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He wishes to disguise the fact that he is of the torchbearers, the varlets, the bathkeepers who produced him.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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They were the torchbearers, the caitiffs, the varlets, the bathkeepers, the inanimate figures whose faces watched from the shadows the great orgies of Tiberius, the bacchanals of satraps, kings, captains and squires.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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As luck would have it, Esther had issued the command that the bathkeepers and barbers were not to ply their trades on that day, and there was nothing for Haman to do but perform the menial services Mordecai required.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913
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