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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
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
Eventually she was summoned to see the union’s president, Richard Trumka, whose seigneurial berth looks down on the White House.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 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
The Assyrian palaces consisted of three wholly distinct groups of buildings, three divisions which we find exactly reproduced to-day in the seigneurial and princely dwellings of Persia, India and Turkey.
From The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various
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