seigneur noun. [seɪ'njǝ:, sɛɲ:r (pl. same)] Also Seigneur. L16.
[Old & mod. French from Latin SENIOR.]
Esp. in France and Canada, a feudal lord, the lord of a manor, (chiefly Hist. exc. in the Channel Islands, spec. Sark). Now gen., a lord, a person exercising (feudal) authority.
droit du seigneur, droit de seigneur, droits du seigneur, droits de seigneur: see DROIT noun¹ 1. grand seigneur: see GRAND adjective².
■ A. Morice He still sees himself as the Seigneur of the neighbourhood.

► Cf. SEIGNIOR, SENHOR, SEñOR, SIGNOR.

■ 'seigneuress noun a woman exercising feudal authority; the wife of a seigneur: M19.

■ seigneurial adjective of or pertaining to a seigneur or lord; lordly, authoritative, feudal: M17.

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