demesne
Example Sentences
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The names on the blue and white city signs rarely memorialize the Native Americans whose lands these were, nor the Spanish missionaries and ranchers who divvied them up into demesnes more enormous than dukedoms.
From Los Angeles Times
And as the years progress, she gives up dreams of royalty to focus on the demesne she can control: the convent and its lands.
From Los Angeles Times
This was especially the case in England, where the aristocracy was more dependent on the cultivation of the demesne.
From Salon
He had seen the wine cellars in some of those places, and he had set about building one for his own demesne, in Deep South Jersey.
From The New Yorker
In “The King’s Teacup at Rest,” your story in this week’s issue, a king and his retinue arrive to inspect the king’s newest property—or perhaps that should be “demesne.”
From The New Yorker
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