seigneur
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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
Item, th’ Erle of Aroundell gave Xs., and he was cried, Largesse de noble et puissaunt seigneur le counte d’Aroundell, et seigneur de Maltravers.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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
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
The King, shrewd madman, peoples his palaces in imagination with the grands seigneurs and ladies of France.
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
