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seigneurial

American  
[sen-yur-ee-uhl, sayn-] / sɛnˈjɜr i əl, seɪn- /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a seigneur.

  2. reminiscent of a seigneur; lordly, magnanimous, condescending.


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In the light of this, one might wonder: How dutifully are the wealthy, with all their inherent advantages, holding up their end of the seigneurial bargain?

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 22, 2018

Eventually she was summoned to see the union’s president, Richard Trumka, whose seigneurial berth looks down on the White House.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2016

Bianca and Mick Jagger, draped in costume-party gold lamé, preen at a soirée in Mustique, and Boston-based decorator Lawrence C. Peabody, in natty white seersucker, strikes a seigneurial pose alongside his pool in Port-au-Prince.

From Architectural Digest ● Oct. 23, 2014

Want to read a column in which Barney Ronay likens Marouane Fellaini to a beautiful peasant daughter in some seigneurial mediaeval fiefdom and Andy Carroll to a giant doomed woodlouse?

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012

Besides, there were various details of a minor sort incidental to the seigneurial system.

From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by William Bennett Munro

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