▪ I. mayordom Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈmɛədəm)
See quot. 1611; also Sc. the office of a ‘mair of fee’.
| 1611 Cotgr., Mairerie, a Maiordome; the office, or place of a Mayor; also, his iurisdiction, or the precincts thereof. 1872 C. Innes Lect. Scot. Legal Antiq. ii. 78 We had numerous mairdoms or subdivisions of sheriffdoms, and several mairs of fee, that is, hereditary mairs. |
▪ II. mayordom(e, -domo
obs. ff. major-domo.