seigneur

He wearies the young men of his city in athletic contests, and when they marry he insists on the droit du seigneur: he, not the groom, spends the wedding night with the bride.

The university is one of the last domains of hierarchy, its Marxist residents notwithstanding, and hierarchy has always been conducive to the droit du seigneur.

Women are not legally chattel, even if many still face the kind of droit de seigneur attitude of entitlement from powerful men.

Nearly 80 years later, that aroma of perversion and maladroit du seigneur clings to Hollywood.

A petition from women demanding that the United States introduce droit de seigneur.