major-domo
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Proteins, of course; RNA acts as the major-domo, a bridge between the castes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Over nearly three hours, stories spill out, with Safi, played warmly by superb Ammar Haj Ahmad, acting as a self-appointed major-domo.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
Chad Kelderman is deliciously ridiculous as Olivia’s pompous major-domo Malvolio, and Eric Ray Anderson gleefully cavorts as the sly party dog Sir Toby Belch.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2019
When Lucy finally arrives at the castle, Myron Olderglough, the major-domo of Jeeves-like elegance, brings Lucy into the mysteries of Baron Von Aux, who has descended into bestial madness since the baroness disappeared.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015
Donovan marveled, “What are they doing? That’s what I want to know. It looks like the Virginia reel—and Dave’s a major-domo, or I never saw one.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Both ceremonies were slick enough, and McDonald and Odom proved to be charming major-domos.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2021
Little Fortune was interned at war's beginning, but he was not shipped to Canada on the ill-fated Arandora Star along with most of London's Italian major-domos.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can imagine a young ant getting a severe ear-wigging from one of the major-domos for its stupidity.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by David Starr Jordan
He had no office hours and never interposed secretaries or major-domos between himself and the people.
From Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Isaac Massey Haldeman
Let their passion rage steadily against the existing major-domos to this effect, "Find us men skilled in house-building, acquainted with the laws of atmospheric suction, and capable to cure smoke;" something might come of it!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
