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  • noun Plural form of majordomo.

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Examples

  • He manages a weak smile and a moment later is eased aside by one of the majordomos charged with managing the crush around me.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • He manages a weak smile and a moment later is eased aside by one of the majordomos charged with managing the crush around me.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • What do other majordomos on the Street think about the bill?

    Danny Schechter: The "War" On Wall Street May Be Over: Who Won? 2010

  • In Northern New Mexico, farmers have constructed centuries-old irrigation ditches, directed by the majordomos of each small village, most of whom I would more trust with the flow of government monies than a lot of these guys in Washington.

    Obama's Presidency Could Galvanize 30 Million American Idealists and Reformers/A Memory of Paul Newman at United Nations 2008

  • In writing my last piece for the magazine, I got to know a few of the fundraising majordomos like Geffen on both sides.

    An Inconvenient Truth - Swampland - TIME.com 2007

  • Harvard-Princeton football games, to the St. Nicholas ice-skating rink, to a thorough round of the theatres and to a miscellany of entertainments — from small, staid dances to the great affairs that Gloria loved, held in those few houses where lackeys with powdered wigs scurried around in magnificent Anglomania under the direction of gigantic majordomos.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • Even when hiring humans, the majordomos of the new Emperor's various households were under orders to get as many non-Terrans as was politic.

    A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

  • In which he consented that his own majordomos and all the others, should use cruelty and unheard of tortures to extract gold and tribute from the

    Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

  • In November they moved into Anthony's apartment, from which they sallied triumphantly to the Yale-Harvard and Harvard-Princeton football games, to the St. Nicholas ice-skating rink, to a thorough round of the theatres and to a miscellany of entertainments -- from small, staid dances to the great affairs that Gloria loved, held in those few houses where lackeys with powdered wigs scurried around in magnificent Anglomania under the direction of gigantic majordomos.

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • Ministers, dignitaries of the Court, Councillors of State; majordomos, stewards, butlers, body-servants; they all came one by one or in groups of twos or threes.

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

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