noun. A person in charge of maintaining or restoring valuable items, as in a museum or library.

noun. A protector or guardian.

noun. One placed in charge of the property or personal affairs of an incompetent person.

noun. A preserver; one who or that which preserves from injury, violation, or infraction: as, a conservator of the peace. See phrases below.

noun. Specifically — , A person appointed to superintend idiots, lunatics, etc., manage their property, and preserve it from waste.

noun. One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.

noun. undefined

noun. An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.

noun. One who has an official charge of preserving the rights and privileges of a city, corporation, community, or estate.

noun. a board of commissioners instituted by Parliament to have the conservancy of the Thames.

noun. One who conserves, preserves or protects something.

noun. A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.

noun. A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.

noun. A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.

noun. someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person

noun. the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)

"Skipping past all the obvious puns, it seems that a conservator is going to dehydrate the dress for display, not consumption."

conservator of the apostolic privileges  conservators of the peace  

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conservatorial  conservatorship  

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