Some sort of high household officer in Vorbarra livery met them, and guided them down two very long and echoing corridors to the north wing.

Nero's statues were again set up, his freedmen and household officers reinstalled, and the intended completion of the Golden House announced.

They flew down a bewildering labyrinth of corridors and stairs, past clusters of gawking courtiers and household officers.

Along with the limited possibilities came other daily frustrations as the Duke's tutors and the household officers under Parr disagreed on the balance of recreation and study.

The 11th century Capetian kings of France, for instance, "ruled through royal officers who were in many respects indistinguishable from their household officers."

He served as a leading household officer of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

The mixture of usefulness and display that explained the growing importance of the chaplains also lay behind the rise of other household officers.

He opened the ante-chamber door, and precipitated himself into the midst of the servants and subordinate household officers.

The meaning of serjeant as a household officer is still preserved in the king's serjeants-at-arms, serjeant-surgeons and serjeant-trumpeter.

He had received, some two weeks previously, certain Knights of the Temple fresh from France, though not even his household officers knew what had passed between them.