baronial

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The sprawling Scottish Borders estate, set in more than 160-acres, is one of only two baronial buildings designed by architect James Gillespie Graham.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 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 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

The family that had once owned land on a baronial scale now needed charity to eat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

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