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Housefather   Listen
noun
housefather  n.  A man in charge of children in an institution.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Housefather" Quotes from Famous Books



... unknown "far west" of America. After the fall of Napoleon he had returned to Paris. He was much more intelligent than his Bourbon cousins. He was a simple man who went about in the public parks with a red cotton umbrella under his arm, followed by a brood of children like any good housefather. But France had outgrown the king business and Louis did not know this until the morning of the 24th of February, of the year 1848, when a crowd stormed the Tuilleries and drove his Majesty away ...
— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon



Words linked to "Housefather" :   man, adult male



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