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Definition of Latchkeys
1. latchkey [n] - See also: latchkey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latchkeys
Literary usage of Latchkeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"had no discontents; they wanted neither votes nor latchkeys: indeed, why should
they, since they invariably got round their stout and fussy mothers, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"I. latchkeys in the parental household are the exclusive property of its male
members. Question. Is it your opinion that a spinster should have all the ..."
3. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1908)
"THE REMINISCENCES OF CARL SCHURZ now, that the tenants of apartment-houses were
not given latchkeys for the street doors, but that such keys were entrusted ..."
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