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To keep house

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	to maintain an independent domestic establishment.
	To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to manage domestic affairs.
(Eng. Bankrupt Law)	To seclude one's self in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors.

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Mamma is so feeble, I shall have to keep house, I suppose, and you must show me how, Polly," said Fan.

An Old-Fashioned Girl by Alcott, Louisa May View in context

Faith, the Major's big enough to choose for himself," Sir Michael said; "he'll ask ye when he wants ye"; or else he would turn the matter off jocularly, declaring that "Dobbin was too young to keep house, and had written home to ask lave of his mamma.

Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context

Nay, she is not gifted for a frontier wife, if this is the manner she is to keep house while the husband is on the hunt.

The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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