seneschal
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
seneschal (plural seneschals)
- A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Chapter 35
- […] so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign […]
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Chapter 35
- (historical) An officer of the crown in late medieval and early modern France who served as a kind of governor and chief justice of the royal court in Normandy and Languedoc.
- (steward) See steward
- French: sénéchal
- Portuguese: senescal
- Russian: сенеша́ль
- Spanish: senescal
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