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seigneur Definition

sei·gneur (sān yʉr′, sen-)

noun

  1. seignior (sense )
  2. in French Canada, through the mid-19th cent., the owner of an estate orig. granted by royal decree to 17th-cent. French settlers

Etymology: Fr < MFr: see seignior

seigneur Related Forms

sei·gneur′·ial (--ē əl) adjective

seigneur Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

feudal: Hence the nice round number of 100 words which are deemed to be acceptable to our feudal seigneurs down south.

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