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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seneschal \Sen"es*chal\, n. [OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of
   Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch,
   AS. scealc. Cf. {Senior}, {Marshal}.]
   An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the
   Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and
   domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had
   the dispensing of justice, and was given high military
   commands.

         Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and
         seneschale.                              --Milton.

         Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first
         established royal courts of justice, held by the
         officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as
         the king's lieutenants in his demains.   --Hallam.

资料来源 : WordNet®

seneschal
     n : the chief steward or butler of a great household [syn: {major-domo}]