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  Seneschal \Sen"es*chal\, n. [OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of
     Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch,
     AS. scealc. Cf. Senior, Marshal.]
     An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the
     Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and
     domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had
     the dispensing of justice, and was given high military
     commands.
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           Then marshaled feast
           Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. --Milton.
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           Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first
           established royal courts of justice, held by the
           officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as
           the king's lieutenants in his demains.   --Hallam.
     [1913 Webster]

  Seneschal \Sen"es*chal\, n. [OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of
     Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch,
     AS. scealc. Cf. Senior, Marshal.]
     An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the
     Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and
     domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had
     the dispensing of justice, and was given high military
     commands.
  
           Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and
           seneschale.                              --Milton.
  
           Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first
           established royal courts of justice, held by the
           officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as
           the king's lieutenants in his demains.   --Hallam.

  seneschal
       n : the chief steward or butler of a great household [syn: major-domo]

  seneschal
     Middle English n.
     1 A steward in charge of a nobleman's estate.
     2 A viceroy; one governing in place of a ruler.
     n.
     1 A steward, particularly (lb en historical) one in charge of a
  medieval nobleman's estate.
     2 (lb en 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.

  seneschal
     n.
     1 A steward, particularly (lb en historical) one in charge of a
  medieval nobleman's estate.
     2 (lb en 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.

  seneschal
     Middle English n.
     1 A steward in charge of a nobleman's estate.
     2 A viceroy; one governing in place of a ruler.
     n.
     1 A steward, particularly (lb en historical) one in charge of a
  medieval nobleman's estate.
     2 (lb en 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.

  seneschal
     Middle English n.
     1 A steward in charge of a nobleman's estate.
     2 A viceroy; one governing in place of a ruler.
     n.
     1 A steward, particularly (lb en historical) one in charge of a
  medieval nobleman's estate.
     2 (lb en 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.

  seneschal
     Englanti n.
     senesalkki

  seneschal //ˈsɛnəʃəl// 
  сенеша́л
  steward in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate

  seneschal /sˈɛnɛʃəl/
  majordom

  seneschal /sˈɛnɛʃəl/
  
  τελετάρχης, οικονόμος

  seneschal /sˈɛnɛʃəl/
  1. ortaçağda derebeyi kethüdası veya teşrifatçısı.

  n. 管家;

     n. 管家