demesne
Example Sentences
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The show has also expanded outside the demesne walls.
From BBC
The names on the blue and white city signs rarely memorialize the Native Americans whose lands these were, nor the Spanish missionaries and ranchers who divvied them up into demesnes more enormous than dukedoms.
From Los Angeles Times
And as the years progress, she gives up dreams of royalty to focus on the demesne she can control: the convent and its lands.
From Los Angeles Times
This was especially the case in England, where the aristocracy was more dependent on the cultivation of the demesne.
From Salon
“My hoe! Today’s my day on the demesne. Can’t find my hoe.”
From Literature
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