majordomo

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Upon that she related that the majordomo had given orders to the Bargello, and that I should certainly be taken up: only, if I would not harbour her son, I might square accounts by paying her a hundred crowns; the majordomo was her crony, and I might rest assured that she could work him to her liking, provided I paid down the hundred crowns.

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  1. A man employed to superintend the management of a household, especially that of a sovereign or other dignitary keeping a great establishment; a house-steward. In former times the majordomo of a royal household was commonly an officer of high rank and influence, often charged with important ministerial duties in affairs of government. See mayor of the palace, under mayor. He took the ceremony which he found ready in the custom of the Jews, where the major-domo, after the paschal supper, gave bread and wine to every person of his family. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 116. The King's personal favorite and attendant, his “dapifer,” “pincerna,” major domus, or something of the kind. E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, II. 441.
  2. See water-master.

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  • The address majordomo is a very common one for processing mailing list subscription requests. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 9 -- Scanners
  • Her son was her majordomo, and by the age of seven or eight, he was her stage manager and her dresser and he rehearsed the band. —  TV Squad
  • I prefer to coup the JGSDF with a private army of unarmed strapping young men, of whom the leader / majordomo is my gay lover. —  Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China
  • The small adobe house back there in the trees houses the majordomo--that old rascal, Pablo He is still here, dad Yes--and as belligerent as old billy-owl. —  The Pride of Palomar
  • While she did not yet know what she could do, she was not one to sit idle while events hurried to a crisis Meantime she had her majordomo order a horse saddled for her to ride over to Corbett's for the mail CHAPTER X MR. AINSA DELIVERS A MESSAGE Back to Davis, who had stopped to tighten his saddle-girth, came Dick Gordon's rather uncertain tenor in rollicking song Bloomin' idol made o' mud Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd Plucky lot she cared for idols when I Kissed 'er where she stud There he goes, advertising himself for a target to every greaser in the county. —  A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
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  1. = French majordome = Italian maggiordomo, from Spanish mayordomo = Portuguese mordomo, maiordomo, from Middle Latin major domus, a house-steward: L. major, elder, Middle Latin chief (see mayor); domus, genitive of domus, a house: see dome.
 

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