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Seneschal

noun
1.
The chief steward or butler of a great household.  Synonym: major-domo.






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"Seneschal" Quotes from Famous Books



... her godfather and buying back the treasures, so that Tito might keep his ill-gotten gain and her father's last wish still be fulfilled; but he convinced her that all interference was too late, for the things had been purchased by the Count di San Severino and the Seneschal de Beaucaire, who were already on their way with ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey-headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens

... under Wallenstein. He maintained sixty pages, who were instructed by the ablest masters. His antichamber was protected by fifty life guards. His table never consisted of less than 100 covers, and his seneschal was a person of distinction. When he travelled, his baggage and suite accompanied him in a hundred wagons, drawn by six or four horses; his court followed in sixty carriages, attended by fifty led horses. The ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller



Words linked to "Seneschal" :   servant, retainer



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