feudal

With no feudal background, America lacked a capital city like London or Paris designed to showcase the arts, so the idea spread across all 50 states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Nightclubbing started some 350 years ago in Yoshiwara, near Tokyo, “a flashy pleasure quarter” of feudal Japan that served, Ms. Willetts writes, as “the ultimate pressure valve for the shogun’s otherwise disciplined regime.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

When gunpowder arrived and the emerging nation-states rendered obsolete the old art of war dominated by feudal lords entrenched in their castles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Baelor, a politician and a feudal dynast, might understand on some level that by fighting with Dunk, he is, in his own way, upholding the dignity of the crown and keeping the commoners placated.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

Pedro Tercero remembered him as an angry giant with a snakeskin whip and a silver cane, at whose step the tenants trembled and whose thunderous voice and feudal arrogance made all of nature quake.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende