Major-domo Definition

Major-domo Sentence Examples

• So thought the major-domo on his master's behalf.

• In 1656, and again in 1657, she visited France, on the second occasion ordering the assassination of her major-domo Monaldischi, a crime still unexplained.

• The permanent residents are generally limited to the major-domo and his family; and in the dry season labourers are hired, of any colour that can be obtained - some from the low country, others from the highlands - for three, four, or five months, who gather in and grind the cane, and plant for the harvest of the following year; but the staff of resident Indian labourers, such as exists in the farms of the sierra, cannot be kept up in the Yungas, as these half-warm valleys are called.

• He took for a time the post of major-domo to Reginald (Reinoud), count of Brederode.

• But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced that dinner was ready!