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seigneur: synonyms: suzerain ???

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Definition:

a feudal lord in France
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n 1: a man of rank in the ancient regime

^{Princeton University. WordNet.. 2006.}
^{https://wordnet.princeton.edu/}

^{painting: by Vasily Polenov (1847)}
^{https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_droit_du_Seigneur_by_Vasiliy_Polenov.jpg}

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Then they demanded a parley: but it was too late, for meanwhile our French infantry, seeing them taken by surprise, mounted the breach, and cut them all in pieces, save one very fair young girl of Piedmont, whom a great seigneur would have. . . .

Ambroise Paré. Journeys In Diverse Places

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He and I started back across the fields, preceding the others like two seigneurs.

John Knowles. A Separate Peace, p.16 (1959)

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He was that absent-minded crank, a grand seigneur husband who was in no one’s way, and far from spoiling the high tone and general impression of the drawing room, he served, by the contrast he presented to her, as an advantageous background to his elegant and tactful wife.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 06 (Book Six)

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French soldier: O Seigneur Dieu!

Pistol:O Signieur Dew should be a gentleman.

Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark:

O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,

Except, O signieur, thou do give to me

Egregious ransom.

William Shakespeare. The Life of Henry the Fifth (1599