seneschal

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His table never consisted of less than 100 covers, and his seneschal was a person of distinction.

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  1. noun An official in a medieval noble household in charge of domestic arrangements and the administration of servants; a steward or major-domo.

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  • ;I can talk at the seneschal, and I can talk at the matron, or I could when she was here. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • Again, the seneschal was pleased to discover that the Fallaji would be bringing little more than an honor guard. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • She would speak to the seneschal, the Captain of the Guard and Tawnos, and not to anyone else. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • In 1412 the King's licence was given to John Tiptoft, seneschal, and William Boteler, receiver of Brecknock, to negociate with Owyn for the ransom of David Gamne, the gallant Welshman who afterwards fell at the battle of Agincourt. —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
  • The forester found him there and reported him to Fromont's seneschal, who called out six of his men to go and take the poacher; and along with them went Thibaut, Fromont's nephew, an old rival of Begon. —  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also seneshall; from Middle English seneschal (= Italian senesciallo), from Old French seneschal, senescal, French sénéchal = Provencal Spanish Portuguese senescal = Italian siniscalco, seniscalco, from Middle Latin senescalcus, siniscalcus, later also senescallus, senescaldus (later Middle High German seneschalt, sineschalt, German seneschall), a steward, prefect, majordomo, as if from Gothic (Moesogothic) *sinaskalks, ‘old servant,’ from sins (superlative sinista), old (= Latin sen-ex, old: see senate), + skalks, servant: see shalk. The same element - shal occurs in marshal, q. v.
 

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/ˈsɛnɛʃəl/
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