seigneurial

Etymology

seigneur + -ial

adj

  1. Of or relating to a seigneur or to seigneurialism.
    In April 1768 Carleton had proposed the restoration of the seigneurial militia system. 1724-1759, William Wood, The Father of British Canada= A Chronicle of Carleton
  2. Befitting a seigneur.
    She would chat for hours, without thinking anything of it, with the chief of the village on her mother's estate, when he happened to come into town, and talk with him as if he were her equal, without any signs of seigneurial condescension. 1873, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Liza
    It had a church, just at the junction of the roads, and a fine seigneurial chateau, in a garden, beside the church; otherwise it was a little lonely mean place, built of brick and plaster on a great lonely heap of chalk downland. 1918, John Masefield, The Old Front Line

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