Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of seneschal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office of a
seneschal .
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Examples
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Dowager of Condillac in this resistance of Her Majesty's mandate, let me enjoin you, as you value your seneschalship -- as you value your very neck -- to harbour that thought no longer.
Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912
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You have waxed fat and sleek in your seneschalship; this easy life in Dauphiny appears to have been well suited to your health.
Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Brereton, as a reward for his military services, had been given several sequestrated properties, a chief forestership, and a seneschalship.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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In September, 1252, he laid down the seneschalship and retired into France.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892
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Torwood,) — “the keeping and government and seneschalship of my
Old Mortality 2004
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