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Definition of Seneschals
1. seneschal [n] - See also: seneschal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seneschals
Literary usage of Seneschals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"Bailiffs (in the North), seneschals (in the South).3 Origins. —The grand seneschal,
an officer of the court who watched over the royal provosts, disappeared ..."
2. "Our Constitution.": An Epitome of Our Chief Laws and System of Government by Alexander Charles Ewald (1867)
"... the two charters should be read in the County Court House in the presence of
all the people ; that the Sheriffs, Judges, and seneschals of the King, ..."
3. Town Life in the Fifteenth Century by Alice Stopford Green (1894)
"This states that all the burgesses and the commonalty of the borough of Bridgewater
have ordained that they will choose yearly two seneschals of their guild ..."
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