flamekeeper
English
Etymology
flame + keeper
Noun
flamekeeper (plural flamekeepers)
- One who tends a fire that must be kept burning (in various pagan practices).
- (figuratively, rare) One who keeps some idea alive.
- 2009 March 10, Jon Caramanica, “Stepping to the Fore as a Backup Band”, in New York Times:
- 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.
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