seigneur

So I could not have been more thrilled when #MeToo ripped away the curtain on the murky transgressions and diminishments that women had endured in the droit du seigneur era.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2020

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 ● Nov. 25, 2016

He is interrupted by the arrival of Figaro and a group of peasants praising him for abolishing the droit de seigneur.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2012

This new cinema will be cut and pasted together in a world beyond copyright, where droit d'auteur will soon seem as medieval as droit du seigneur.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2011

The so-called "act of investiture" generally followed, the seigneur handing over to the vassal a bit of turf, a stick, or some other object symbolizing the transfer of the usufruct of the property in question.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg

His was an age of hierarchy, in which inequalities of rank seemed to separate seigneurs and servants into separate species, and Montaigne is not free of this attitude; nonetheless, he is curious.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012

But to tourists' eyes, at least, the country of the seigneurs still looked the same.

From Time Magazine Archive

Given their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything else, however strong.

From Time Magazine Archive

A mild-mannered Yankee, with a cracker-barrel wit, he may have been quite a wrench from such grands seigneurs as Charles Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell.

From Time Magazine Archive

He and I started back across the fields, preceding the others like two seigneurs.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles