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flamekeeper

noun

Etymology

From flame + keeper.

  1. inherited from kepere
  2. compounded as flamekeeper — “flame + keeper”

Definitions

  1. One who tends a fire that must be kept burning (in various pagan practices).

  2. One who keeps some idea alive.

    • As the genre has shifted and evolved around — and in many ways beyond — them, they have remained committed to a role as flamekeeper of a certain strain of hip-hop authenticity.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for flamekeeper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA