Definitions
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- noun The head
servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthyhousehold in a foreign country; a leading servant orbutler . - noun US, Southwest A
manager of ahacienda ,ranch orestate . - noun Any
overseer ,organizer , person in command.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The majordomo was a tall, blue-skinned Bolian dressed in a tuxedo, and he seemed eminently above it all and bored with it at the same time.
ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996
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The majordomo was a tall, blue-skinned Bolian dressed in a tuxedo, and he seemed eminently above it all and bored with it at the same time.
ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996
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The majordomo was a tall, blue-skinned Bolian dressed in a tuxedo, and he seemed eminently above it all and bored with it at the same time.
ROGUE SAUCER JOHN VORNHOLT 1996
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The majordomo was a high-ranking slave who had the duty of relaying the Queen's orders when it came to whom she would see and whom she would not.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Upon that she related that the majordomo had given orders to the Bargello, and that I should certainly be taken up: only, if I would not harbour her son, I might square accounts by paying her a hundred crowns; the majordomo was her crony, and I might rest assured that she could work him to her liking, provided I paid down the hundred crowns.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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Upon that she related that the majordomo had given orders to the Bargello, and that I should certainly be taken up: only, if I would not harbour her son, I might square accounts by paying her a hundred crowns; the majordomo was her crony, and I might rest assured that she could work him to her liking, provided I paid down the hundred crowns.
LXI 1909
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Bargello, and that I should certainly be taken up: only, if I would not harbour her son, I might square accounts by paying her a hundred crowns; the majordomo was her crony, and I might rest assured that she could work him to her liking, provided I paid down the hundred crowns.
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535
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Below stairs, so to speak, is a parallel contest — in fact, the novel's dominant rivalry — between the ambitious young assistants of each powerful man: Jeric ó , who becomes underchief to Carrera; and Josu é , who rises to become a kind of majordomo to the titan Monroy.
Intellectual Intrigue in Mexico City Alexander Theroux 2011
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I thought that a “man’s man” was either a gay guy’s lover – or one of those traditional forms of help – otherwise known as a majordomo, butler, whatever.
David Beckham…top stud! Just, ask me.com « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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I thought that a “man’s man” was either a gay guy’s lover – or one of those traditional forms of help – otherwise known as a majordomo, butler, ...
xntrek commented on the word majordomo
(n) A majordomo is the highest (major) person of a household (domo) staff, one who acts on behalf of the (often absent) owner of a typically large household; A butler.
May 13, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word majordomo
He's always the culprit.
May 13, 2009