seigneur
Example Sentences
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A petition from women demanding that the United States introduce droit de seigneur.
From Washington Post
His method: Persuade executives to appease him personally and allow him to take credit for their job creation, in a kind of modern economic version of droit de seigneur.
From Washington Post
But the way the campaign played out, with the release of the tape, it was almost as if people were talking about droit du seigneur all over again.
From New York Times
He and I started back across the fields, preceding the others like two seigneurs.
From Literature
The word derives from the French seigneur, which means “lord.”
From Forbes
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
