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单词 rere-fief
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rere-fiefn.

Origin: A borrowing from French, combined with English elements; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: rear- comb. form, fief n.
Etymology: < rear- comb. form (compare forms at that entry) + fief n., after French †rierefief (13th cent. in Old French), variant (with loss of initial a ) of arrière-fief (see arrière-fief n.). Compare post-classical Latin retrofeodum , retrofeudum (12th cent.; 13th cent. in British sources). Compare earlier arrière-fief n.
Obsolete.
= arrière-fief n.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief > subfief
under-fee1594
arrière fee1615
subfeu1681
arrière-fief1716
subinfeudation1725
sub-fief1729
rere-fief1761
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. xi. 358 The dutchy of Brittany..was usually regarded as a rere-fief of Normandy.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 57 These inferior feudatories (who held what are called in the Scots law ‘rere-fiefs’).
1792 ‘J. Gifford’ Hist. France III. 104 He allowed them [sc. the citizens of Beauvais] to hold fiefs, and rere-fiefs, exempt from the usual contributions, and from all the services attached to that species of possession.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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