Definition of "seneschal"

seneschal

/ˈsɛnəʃəl/

noun
plural seneschals
1. (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
  Quotations
  Beside stood seneschals, the appointed witnesses of the ensuing games.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 131
  […] so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign […]
  1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […]
2. (historical) 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.