demesne

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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 • May 10, 2022

In the meantime, as Duke of Cornwall he busies himself on a smaller scale, cementing feudal relations with the tenants who live on his extensive Cornwall demesnes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Equally with the daily accounts of his kitchen he knew how to test the calculations concerning the crown demesnes and forests, and the excise.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Besides these respectable towns, there were some of a less eminent figure which had writs directed to them as ancient demesnes of the crown.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

He collects in paternal fashion the revenues of his Grand Ducal demesnes, and no power has any right to ask any questions.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles