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seigneur

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8 lettersPronunciation /sɛˈnjɜ/Part of speech nounSorted eeginrsuStarts with SEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a man of rank in the ancient regime

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.

Used in a sentence

  • "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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