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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Other Word Forms

• seigneurialism noun

Example Sentences

The heart of Lowenstein’s account is the claim that the North won because its relentlessly dynamic form of “modern financial capitalism” was more effective than the South’s premodern “system of seigneurial wealth” at supporting 19th-century warfare.

From Washington Post

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

From The Guardian

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

At one time, the country could attract the best dancers and choreographers to work at its elegant and vast Teatro Colón, a seigneurial pile that fills an entire city block off of the Avenida 9 de Julio.

From The New Yorker

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