feu

/ (fjuː) /

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noun

Scot legal history

a feudal tenure of land for which rent was paid in money or grain instead of by the performance of military service
the land so held

Scots law a right to the use of land in return for a fixed annual payment (feu duty)

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Word Origin for feu

C15: from Old French; see fee

Words nearby feu

fettuccine, fettuccine Alfredo, fettucine, fetus, fetus papyraceus, feu, feuar, Feuchtwanger, feud, feudal, feudalism

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How to use feu in a sentence

He bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus qui a les narines de feu!
Rookwood|William Harrison Ainsworth
Sa main droite perce d'un cousteau fut brusle feu de souphre.
Notes and Queries, Number 241, June 10, 1854|Various
La coigne est ia mise la racine des arbres: parquoy tout arbre qui ne fait pas bon fruit, sera coupp & iett au feu, Mat.
Printers' Marks|William Roberts
And the abb snapped both fingers and thumbs in a double-barrelled feu de joie.
The Isle of Unrest|Henry Seton Merriman

General de la Motterouge had fought in the Crimea: "Peu de feu et beaucoup de bayonette" had been his maxim then.
The Isle of Unrest|Henry Seton Merriman