SENESCHAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seneschal mean? 

• SENESCHAL (noun)
  The noun SENESCHAL has 1 sense:

1. the chief steward or butler of a great household

  Familiarity information: SENESCHAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENESCHAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief steward or butler of a great household

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

major-domo; seneschal

Hypernyms ("seneschal" is a kind of...):

retainer; servant (a person working in the service of another (especially in the household))

 Context examples 

I came up even as the seneschal's archers were tying him up, and I gave him my fore-word that I would bide with him until he had passed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It were pity to balk this worthy seneschal, should he desire to try some small feat of arms.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Harrow and alas for the lady and the seneschal!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I cannot understand it,” quoth the seneschal, “for the English knights and nobles whom I have met were not men to brook the insolence of the base born.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He shall have four silver candlesticks,” said the seneschal moodily.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is Sir William Felton, who, with my unworthy self, is the chief counsellor of the prince, he being high steward and I the seneschal of Aquitaine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The castle is taken and on fire, the seneschal is slain, and there is nought left for us.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my soul! as long as I am seneschal of Aquitaine I will find enough to do in guarding the marches which you have entrusted to me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You mind last year when he came down to Malwood, with his inner marshal and his outer marshal, his justiciar, his seneschal, and his four and twenty guardsmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the very foot of the stair, close to the open door of their chamber, lay the seneschal and his wife: she with her head shorn from her shoulders, he thrust through with a sharpened stake, which still protruded from either side of his body.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)