Meanings
plural lighthousekeepers · alternative lighthouse-keeper
- alternativeAlternative form of lighthouse keeper.
But I heroworship lighthousekeepers. No. Envy is closer. Or maybe jealousy.
2010, Carl MacDougall, The Devil and the Giro3 more examples
Because she was from the Alentejo, remarked the Lighthousekeeper's Wife, that's why she could do sopa alentejana.
1994, Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A HallucinationAfter 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, [...]
2003, Peter Ridgway Watt, Joseph Green, The Alternative Sherlock HolmesLighthouse 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.
2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today
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