Understeward

Quick meaning: Understeward is a noun meaning Alternative form of under-steward.

Meaning

Alternative form of under-steward.

Example Sentences

On R.'s first morning, for instance, the innkeeper tells him that Schwarzer had exaggerated his parentage: he is not the son of the castle steward, but the son of an "understeward," and even one of the lowest understewards.

Amid the hubbub of bustling servants and cooks and pages and understewards crowded into the bowels of the palace, the two newest members of the domestic staff were able to escape notice not only by the harried steward, but also by the guards from the yard, who were still conducting a frantic search

Word Forms

• understewards

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include under-steward, underdeacon, underservant, underassistant, undershepherd, underkeep.

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