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seigneury, ‖ seigneurie Hist.|ˈseɪnjʊərɪ, sɛɲœri|
Also 9 seignurie, -ury.
[ad. F. seigneurie, later form of seignorie (see seignory), assimilated to seigneur.]
1. a. Fr. Hist. A territory under the government of a seigneur. b. In Canada, a landed estate held (until 1854) by feudal tenure.
1683Apol. Prot. France ii. 22 They have turn'd out of all Jurisdictions and Seignuries (which are almost infinite in France) all Protestants who had been admitted Officers in those Jurisdictions. 1763Ld. Holland in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1843) I. 269 Here is a large and good house..in the midst of a most extensive seigneurie. 1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 453 The chatelleine or seigneurie of Lille alone makes annually between 30,000 and 40,000 barrels. 1871C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. viii. 100 The seigneurie of Garre, which lay near his own castle of Blein. 1903Times 12 Dec. 8/6 His father, from whom he inherited the seigneurie, was the most prominent French leader of the rising of 1837.
2. a. In Canada, the mansion of a seigneur.
1895G. Parker When Valmond came vi. (1896) 115 The old sergeant went to the Seigneury, knocked, and was admitted to a room where were seated the young Seigneur, Medallion, and the avocat. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 415/2 As he passed one of the cottages within half a mile of the seigneurie, the sound of a piano made him stop short.
b. In the Channel Islands, the residence of a Seigneur (sense c).
1935E. Platt Sark as I found It ix. 65 The Seigneurie must always be the centre of entertaining in Sark. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 26 May 572/5 There is a nice photograph of him in a group of them outside the Seigneurie, looking as if there is a nasty smell under his nose. |