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may′or of the pal′ace, 
  1. Medieval History, World Historyone of a line of hereditary administrative lieutenants to the Merovingian kings who eventually took over royal function and title in the Frankish kingdoms;
    a palatine.
  • 1520–30; translation of Medieval Latin major domūs; see major-domo

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