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
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
Fred Johanson, looking like Lurch from “The Addams Family,” finds more substance and shadow as Max, Norma’s fanatically loyal major-domo.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2017
“I sat, notebook poised,” he wrote, “while he had a nap. Then he woke up, looked at me and said to his major-domo, ‘Who is this guy?,’ turned over and went back to sleep.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2016
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
His table was always magnificently attended and served, with four major-domos or principal officers, a number of pages, and a great quantity of plate, both gold and silver.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
We must bring these major-domos to despair, and with a gnashing of teeth they shall acknowledge that in all things I am their master.
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
You know that the major-domos of the other diplomatists have become my irreconcilable enemies through envy; they cannot forgive me for having more inventive faculties and better taste than any of them!
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
