baronial

Example Sentences

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The novel begins with the birth of a boy named Lajos to his aloof, baronial parents, Sándor and Mária von Lázár.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Frederick Douglass depicted his plantation in Maryland as resembling “what the baronial domains were during the Middle Ages in Europe.”

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

The property was built more than 170 years ago in a Scottish baronial style, a type of elaborate architecture featuring complex rooflines with turrets and fortress-like battlements.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024

The focal point was the baronial great hall, two stories in height and an essentially Renaissance Revival setting, with a towering stained-glass window of a peacock in a garden by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in masculine solitude in what might be called the halfacre gunroom of a baronial splendor.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner