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词汇 seigneur
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Definition of seigneur in English:

seigneur

(also seignior)
noun seɪˈnjəːseɪnˈjər
historical
  • A feudal lord; the lord of a manor.

    〈主史〉庄园主;封建领主

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thus the landlords retained their old labour services without the traditional obligations of a seigneur, while the peasants continued to do their corvée with very little to show in the way of landownership.
    • The knightly class soon ceased to be purely professional soldiers and became landed proprietors in their own right, acting as seigneurs or lords of the manor.
    • Even when the Baltic lands became outlying provinces of Sweden and later of Tsarist Russia, Germanic merchants and seigneurs continued to dominate Baltic towns and commerce and the manors where Estonians and Latvians were enserfed.
    • During the eighteenth century, the great French seigneurs also revivified their ancient feudal rights to levy tolls on trade passing through their domains.
    • In Picardy where seigneurial dues were also minimal, seigneurs used their privileges to lease out logging rights in forests at a time when wood prices were skyrocketing.
    • Once the feared noble forces failed to materialize, village militias instead turned their weapons on the system itself, compelling seigneurs or their agents to hand over feudal registers to be burned on the village square.
    • However, from the smallest seigneur to the most powerful lord, the entire family and their descendants were noble, and, in the eighteenth century at least, awarded themselves the title of their choice.
    • The seigneur would, in turn, subdivide his acreage to tenants who paid a nominal rent, cleared, and farmed the land.

Derivatives

  • seigneurial

  • adjective seɪnˈjəːrɪəl
    historical
    • In Picardy where seigneurial dues were also minimal, seigneurs used their privileges to lease out logging rights in forests at a time when wood prices were skyrocketing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The reward for his family was ennoblement and the right to exploit the canal as a fief with rights of seigneurial jurisdiction.
      • Here in the Thirty Years War, the seigneurial system collapsed and serfs refused to perform labour services.
      • Unlike the seigneurial courts, the jurisdiction of the leet did not belong to the lord by right but had to be granted to him by the king.
      • He calculates seventeenth-century crop yields, for instance, by drawing regressions on a Norman seigneurial grain levy.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Old French, from Latin senior 'older, elder'.

Rhymes

à deux, agent provocateur, astir, auteur, aver, bestir, blur, bon viveur, burr, Chandigarh, coiffeur, concur, confer, connoisseur, cordon-bleu, cri de cœur, cur, danseur, Darfur, defer, demur, de rigueur, deter, entrepreneur, er, err, farceur, faute de mieux, fir, flâneur, Fleur, force majeure, fur, hauteur, her, infer, inter, jongleur, Kerr, littérateur, longueur, masseur, Monseigneur, monsieur, Montesquieu, Montreux, murre, myrrh, occur, pas de deux, Pasteur, per, pisteur, poseur, pot-au-feu, prefer, prie-dieu, pudeur, purr, raconteur, rapporteur, refer, répétiteur, restaurateur, saboteur, sabreur, Sher, shirr, sir, skirr, slur, souteneur, spur, stir, tant mieux, transfer, Ur, vieux jeu, voyageur, voyeur, were, whirr

Definition of seigneur in US English:

seigneur

(also seignior)
nounseɪnˈjərsānˈyər
historical
  • A feudal lord; the lord of a manor.

    〈主史〉庄园主;封建领主

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thus the landlords retained their old labour services without the traditional obligations of a seigneur, while the peasants continued to do their corvée with very little to show in the way of landownership.
    • In Picardy where seigneurial dues were also minimal, seigneurs used their privileges to lease out logging rights in forests at a time when wood prices were skyrocketing.
    • The knightly class soon ceased to be purely professional soldiers and became landed proprietors in their own right, acting as seigneurs or lords of the manor.
    • Even when the Baltic lands became outlying provinces of Sweden and later of Tsarist Russia, Germanic merchants and seigneurs continued to dominate Baltic towns and commerce and the manors where Estonians and Latvians were enserfed.
    • During the eighteenth century, the great French seigneurs also revivified their ancient feudal rights to levy tolls on trade passing through their domains.
    • The seigneur would, in turn, subdivide his acreage to tenants who paid a nominal rent, cleared, and farmed the land.
    • Once the feared noble forces failed to materialize, village militias instead turned their weapons on the system itself, compelling seigneurs or their agents to hand over feudal registers to be burned on the village square.
    • However, from the smallest seigneur to the most powerful lord, the entire family and their descendants were noble, and, in the eighteenth century at least, awarded themselves the title of their choice.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Old French, from Latin senior ‘older, elder’.

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