"Then you're not - " "Darling," I said, "do you really see me in the position of a seigneur, driving my serfs and villeins before me with a whip - even if the triffids haven't overrun me first?"
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Seigneur
/sɛˈnjɝ/
Synonyms for "seigneur" (74 found)
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6 entriesCanadian seigneurcolonial landholderfeudal lordlord of the manorseigneurial duesseigneurial rights
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There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.
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Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.
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