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- seigneurialism noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
It took over the policy of the Reformers, on self-government, on the clergy reserves, on seigneurial tenure.
From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
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