seigniorial
- a word derived from seignior.
Example Sentences
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He cut ahead of this goofy old couple behind us, as if it were his seigniorial right.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2020
Now those imperious seigniorial rights over the region may be slackening.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2017
The seigniorial mansion itself is taking on more of pomp.
From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
Thereafter a large number of seigniorial grants were made—no less than sixty between 1632 and 1663, when the Company surrendered its rights to the crown.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
And the first thing you did, poor girl, was to lay a rag carpet strip in the passageway for my seigniorial boots—spurred, of course, in your imagination—to make wet snow tracks on!
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
