Meaning of seneschal | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“Beside stood seneschals, the appointed witnesses of the ensuing games.”

“[…] so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign […]”

“It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.”

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