sénéchaussée
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Etymology[edit]
From earlier seneschaucie, from sénéchaux (“seneschals”) + -ie (“-y; -ty”).
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Noun[edit]
sénéchaussée f (plural sénéchaussées)
- a seneschalty: a district governed by a seneschal, particularly:
- (historical) the seneschalties of southern France and Normandy during the late medieval and early modern periods.
- (historical) the capital of a seneschalty; the seat of a seneschal
- (historical) the royal court headed by a seneschal
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Further reading[edit]
- “sénéchaussée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.