seigneury
Americannoun
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the domain of a seigneur.
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(in French Canada) land originally held by grant from the king of France.
noun
Etymology
Origin of seigneury
Example Sentences
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On the morrow there was let cry war in the seigneury of Heurne.
From Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster
The upper classes rarely went far afield, while the "rural population lived in a sort of chrysalis state, in immobility and isolation within each seigneury."
From Beginnings of the American People by William E. Dodd
He was expected to have his seigneury surveyed into farms, or en censive holdings, and to procure, as quickly as might be, settlers for these farms.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
Robert Giffard, who received the seigneury of Beauport just below Quebec, was one of these; Charles Le Moyne, Sieur de Longueuil, was another.
From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by William Bennett Munro
When he came to the New World he wanted the sort of life that would keep him always on his mettle, and that could not be found within the cultivated borders of seigneury and parish.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
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