flamekeeper

English

Etymology

flame +‎ keeper

Noun

flamekeeper (plural flamekeepers)

1. One who tends a fire that must be kept burning (in various pagan practices).
2. (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^[1]:

     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.