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adjective

Seigneurial adj.

Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

Vested with large powers; independent.

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Etymology of 'Seigneurial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Seigneurial" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the bones and skeleton of the corpse which was yet unkillable. This is the site of the little hill village of Thiepval, which once stood at a cross-roads here among apple orchards and the trees of a park. It had a church, just at the junction of the roads, and a fine seigneurial chateau, in a garden, beside the church; otherwise it was a little lonely mean place, built of brick and plaster on a great lonely heap of chalk downland. It had no importance and no history before the war, except ...

— The Old Front Line • John Masefield

... old docility, and some even mobbed the seigneurs who tried to enroll them. Ten years of freedom had worked a democratic change in them, and they were much less enthusiastic than their betters about the restoration of seigneurial privileges. Carleton, like many another, had held as public opinion what were merely the opinions of those whom he met at dinner. "These people had been governed with too loose a rein for many years," he now wrote to Burgoyne, "and had imbibed too much of the ...

— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton