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
“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
“He’s the major-domo, and put that in all caps,” Giuliani said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 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
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
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
