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seigneurial

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

adjective

  1. of or relating to a seigneur.

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


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Finney was now nearly a grand old man, but without the seigneurial distinction of either Olivier or Gielgud.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019

The first commercial appropriation of seigneurial haute cuisine was a Paris restaurant that opened in 1782—seven years before the storming of the Bastille and, appropriately, situated on the Rue de Richelieu.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 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

Beneath all the seigneurial duty and damask, this British series about aristocrats and their servants is at heart as American as Apple computers or the Magic Kingdom.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2014

From the beginning of the colony there ran in the minds of French officialdom the idea that the social order should rest upon a seigneurial basis.

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

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