seigneurs
- plural of seigneur.
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
But to tourists' eyes, at least, the country of the seigneurs still looked the same.
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
Trouble was, the Moscow meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union, a collection of solemn sports buffs who run U.S. amateur athletics with all the imagination of benighted medieval seigneurs.
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
