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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
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
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
And that is just what the colony did, with the seigneurial system as the groundwork of defensive strength.
From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by William Bennett Munro
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