How To Use seigneur In A Sentence
- Uday's a handful, living out some Baathist-inflected fantasia on De Palma's Scarface, shooting off guns indoors, plucking schoolgirls off the streets and raping them, exercising Caligulan droit du seigneur over a war hero's new bride, prompting her suicide, and mutilating and disembowelling his own dad's food-taster at a banquet to honour Mrs Hosni Mubarak par-TAY! The Devil's Double and more movies on the megalomaniacal
- Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America
- In the first place there was some music; then tables were placed all about for all kinds of gambling; there was a 'lansquenet'; at which Monsieur and Monseigneur always played; also Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
- Many scholars claim that there was no such law, called droit de seigneur or jus primae noctis, passed at any time in the Middle Ages. Jus Prima Noctis
- King, and comes to hold the position of a tenant-in-chief (_une seigneurie collective populaire_). Medieval Europe
- Monseigneur the Duc de Bourgogne danced on this occasion for the first time; and led off the 'branle' with Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
- The seigneur would, in turn, subdivide his acreage to tenants who paid a nominal rent, cleared, and farmed the land.
- What a charming grand seigneur , " he said, "and what a fine air he had with his blue ribbon!
- Unlike the seigneurial courts, the jurisdiction of the leet did not belong to the lord by right but had to be granted to him by the king.
- The count plots to exercise his droit de seigneur, the right of titled men to deflower the brides of lesser folk.
