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a person responsible for preserving artworks, or a court-appointed guardian
The museum's conservator spent months restoring the cracked fresco.
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conservatorshipconservatorial
Etymology
From Latin conservator ('a keeper, preserver'), from conservare ('to keep, preserve'), from con- (intensive) + servare ('to keep, guard').
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