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Meaning of seneschal

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

seneschal

Pronunciation:/ˈsɛnəʃəl/

noun

Definitions

  1. A steward, particularly 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.