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SENESCHAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The chief steward or butler of a great household
Synonyms:
major-domo; seneschal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("seneschal" is a kind of...):
retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))
Context examples:
By my hilt! cried Aylward, as the yellow flame flickered up, it is indeed young master Ford, and I think that this seneschal is a black villain, who dare not face us in the day but would murther us in our sleep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It may not be the seneschal. It may be that others have come into the castle. I must to Sir Nigel ere it be too late. Let me go, Aylward, for my place is by his side.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This argument of the seneschal's appealed so powerfully to the Bohemian and to the Hospitaller that they at once intimated that their objections had been entirely overcome, while even the Lady Rochefort, who had sat shivering and crossing herself, ceased to cast glances at the door, and allowed her fears to turn to curiosity.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On all the French marches are droves of outcasts, reivers, spoilers, and draw-latches, of whom I judge that these are some, though I marvel that they should dare to come so nigh to the castle of the seneschal.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
