How To Use major-domo In A Sentence
- In a nineteenth-century South American setting, De Flores was a major-domo of slave stock, and his resentments, sexual and social, drove the action forward.
- There are four openings provided for the passage of food and other necessaries, guarded from within and without, on the exterior by the authority of the marshal and major-domo, on the interior by the prelate assigned to this duty by the three cardinals mentioned above, representative of the three cardinalitial orders. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- The seneschal began presumably by being the major-domo of the German barbarian princes who settled in the empire, and was therefore the predecessor of the mayors of the palace of the Merovingian kings.
- It looks to me as if he's training to be a major-domo at someone's embassy. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- It was doddering old Nilgir Sumanand, Prestimion's aide-de-camp and major-domo. LORD PRESTIMION
- In the course of these preparations, the last person who was disturbed, excepting the physician himself, was the knight of Scotland, whom, about three in the morning, a sort of major-domo, or master of the household, acquainted that he must arise. The Talisman
- I can imagine a young ant getting a severe earwigging from one of the major-domos for its stupidity. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
- And then, about ten days after I had started galloping her, a couple of Ruski staff captains jingled into the courtyard one morning, to be followed by a large horse-sled, and shortly afterwards comes the Count's major-domo to East and me, presenting his apologies, and chivvying us off to our rooms. The Sky Writer
- He was hesitating when a major-domo, appearing from heaven knows where, came up to him in silence, took his hat out of his hands, and without asking for his name murmured: Maigret in Society
- The White House major-domo glowered as the elderly black waitress wept quietly while serving. The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
