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gamekeeper

[geym-kee-per]

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noun

a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.

Origin:
1660–70; game¹ + keeper

Related forms

game·keep·ing, noun

un·der·game·keep·er, noun

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gamekeeper (ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpə)

—n
	a person employed to take care of game and wildlife, as on an estate

'gamekeeping

—n

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"American manners have evolved in a climate in many ways very different from those of the civilization to which most Americans owe their heritage. In most European countries manners have evolved as fences, and conventions of public behavior have been devised to protect one's "place." The shopkeeper had one set of manners toward his customers and another toward his employees, as the butler did toward his "master" and toward the servants, and the squire toward his gamekeeper and his mother-in-law. The idea that manners should be an expression of general regard for one's fellow man is the product of a society that hoped to be classless, and though it has fallen far short of its intentions, our conventions are the very opposite of those designed to protect one class from another. What we have tried to do in America is to perpetuate a set of conventions that give the impression of not being conventions at all but attitudes which, we hope, indicate that one of us is as good as another, as deserving of consideration, and as responsible for maintaining a state of good will. Almost as far back as one can go in the literature (if it can be called that) of American etiquette, one finds that manners are referred to as "minor morals.""

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