major-domo
Example Sentences
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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
Mugleston, who plays Mrs. Pearce, the Higgins household major-domo, with a Scottish accent, waits with her at one interlude in Act 2.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 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
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
