seigneur
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
seigneur (plural seigneurs)
- (French history) A feudal lord; a noble.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 156:
- There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 156:
- The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
- 2012, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 29 Oct 2012:
- Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.
- 2012, Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 29 Oct 2012:
- (Canada) A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
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