| 单词 | mesne-lord |
| 释义 | mesne lord in British Englishnoun (in feudal society) a lord who held land from a superior lord and kept his own tenants on it mesne lord in American English a feudal lord holding land from a superior mesne lord in American Englishnoun (in old English law) an intermediate feudal lord; the tenant of a chief lord and a lord to his own tenants Word origin [1605–15]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crater, ideal, independent, inverse, surfaceDefinition of 'mesne lord' |
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