Definitions for seigneury

seigneury sei·gneur·y

Spelling: [seen-yuh-ree, seyn-]
IPA: /ˈsin yə ri, ˈseɪn-/

Seigneury is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in seigneury (eeginrsuy).

Definitions for seigneury

noun

  1. the domain of a seigneur.
  2. (in French Canada) land originally held by grant from the king of France.

Origin of seigneury

1675-85; French seigneurie; see seigneur, -y3

Examples for seigneury

How he would rule with a strong hand his grandsire's seigneury!

Make for the big tree on the seigneury road—you know: where you were robbed.

Terrible things had been said—terrible things of Francois, and of the girl at the seigneury.

The prisoner is stripped to the waist and driven around the seigneury.

Ah, it is good to have you here in this seigneury, my child!

The wildest gossip said that the figure was that of the young lady at the seigneury.

But upon the seigneury was another flag—it of the golden-lilies.

Do you think that if he knew that will existed, he would be now at the seigneury, or I here?

He had obtained from the seigneury of Berne permission to reside at Arau.

I was led to expect that this seigneury and all in it and on it should be mine.

Word Value for seigneury
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