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Etymology edit

key +‎ master

Noun edit

keymaster (plural keymasters)

  1. 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.

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