housekeeper

Etymology

From house + keeper.

noun

1. (now rare) Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.
2. Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.
   She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.
3. Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
4. (colloquial, now rare) Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
   I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats. 1915, John Buchan, Salute to Adventurers