manorial

[muh-nawr-ee-uhl]

adjective

1. of or relating to manors or the legal and political system through which they developed.

Example Sentences

Shortly after arriving here, Gellhorn returned to the China front and once again left Ernest to be Ernest, this time with an ocean view and manorial comforts, with a bearable touch of pretension.

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The breakdown of this “manorial” system left many of those women dependent on charity.

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The English Statute of Laborers condemned peasants who fled their manorial contracts to have an ‘F’ branded on their foreheads, for ‘Falsity.’

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“Obviously, I don’t remember anything firsthand,” Ms. Ross said, sitting beneath a pergola overlooking a garden and pickleball court at her manorial house, designed by Wallace Neff.

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Patroon: Noun, a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

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