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fief

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4 lettersPronunciation /fiːf/Part of speech nounSorted effiStarts with FEnds with F0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a piece of land held under the feudal system

Word origin

From Middle French fief, from Old French fief, from Medieval Latin fevum, a variant of feudum (whence also Old French fieu, fied), from Old Frankish *fehu (“cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle, sheep”), from Proto-Indo-European *peku-, *peḱu- (“sheep”). Doublet of fee, feud, and feoff.

Used in a sentence

  • Where a vassal kills the brother, son, or grandson of his lord, he should lose his fief on account of it.
  • Investiture was the conferring of a fief by the lord to the vassal, and the rite consisted in the handing over by the lord of some symbolic object intended to represent the act of concession.

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