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of seneschal is primarily as an ecclesiastical term, referring to a cathedral official.

Origin

The Medieval Latin discifer (dish-bearer) was an officer in the household of later Anglo-Saxon kings, and it is sometimes translated by historians as seneschal, although the term was not used in England before the Norman Conquest.

The term, first attested in 1350-1400, was

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