Definitions
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- noun French history An area governed by a
seigneur . - noun Canada The estate of a
seigneur . - noun The official residence of a Seigneur.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New
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Be assured that were the great Turk this very day to offer me the lordship (seigneurie) of Jerusalem, I would positively decline it.
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Le Turc lui a confi� le commandement de cette contr閑, et il en poss鑔e en seigneurie la plus grande partie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It was in vain that he said "I had rather have no power at all and no seigneurie at all [than] not to be able to keep up the rights of it."
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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A seigneurie on the St. Lawrence might well be looked forward to as the reward of military service when the war should be happily terminated; if not, it was something to be able to reduce the great establishment which otherwise must still be kept up in France.
The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Alfred H. Engelbach
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The great Prince Godfrey de Bouillon fully approved of the steps taken by these gentlemen, and for his own part contributed to the upkeep of the hospice the seigneurie of Montbirre, with all its dependencies, which formed a part of his domain in Brabant.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey
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