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sénéchal — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • seneschal noun A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.

Senses

sénéchal is used for these senses in English:

  • seneschal A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.

seneschal — full definition

  1. noun A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
  2. noun 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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