seneschal
/ˈsɛnəʃəl/noun
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1
A steward, particularly (historical) 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.
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