seneschal

About 0.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A steward, particularly one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
2. noun 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.

Similar words

major-domo seneschalty seneskal seneschalship steward seneschalsy esquire squire bailiff provost

Often followed by

of and was to in or had is de

Word family

seneschals