seigneur
noun
a lord, especially a feudal lord.
seigneurs
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pluralof seigneur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His was an age of hierarchy, in which inequalities of rank seemed to separate seigneurs and servants into separate species, and Montaigne is not free of this attitude; nonetheless, he is curious.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012
A mild-mannered Yankee, with a cracker-barrel wit, he may have been quite a wrench from such grands seigneurs as Charles Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell.
From Time Magazine Archive
The King, shrewd madman, peoples his palaces in imagination with the grands seigneurs and ladies of France.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the calmer Charleville streets of Rimbaud's boyhood district, swans cruised nonchalantly like grand seigneurs inspecting their expanded watery estates.
From Time Magazine Archive
He and I started back across the fields, preceding the others like two seigneurs.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
