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demesne

[dih-meyn, -meen] / dɪˈmeɪn, -ˈmin /








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“In our house things were either broken or not used at all,” the 14-year-old says of her chaotic home, a once-grand demesne neglected by Caithleen’s volatile father.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

The show has also expanded outside the demesne walls.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2023

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 Sep. 7, 2021

This was especially the case in England, where the aristocracy was more dependent on the cultivation of the demesne.

From Salon Apr. 26, 2020

The peasant moves the boundary stone And steals the lord’s demesne.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz




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