Meaning of Seigneur | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A feudal lord or noble in French contexts.
2. The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
3. A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
   Canada
4. A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.

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Examples

“"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?"”

“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.”

“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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