seigneurie
Noun
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Noun
seigneurie (plural seigneuries)
- (French history) An area governed by a seigneur.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 153:
- Conventionally, seigneuries were divided between, first, the domain land […] ; and, second, the tenures (or censives) which were divided among the peasantry and others.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 153:
- (Canada) The estate of a seigneur.
- (Channel Islands) The official residence of a Seigneur.
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