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seigneur
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Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
in French Canada: the legal holder of a seigneury (def. 1a).
See: seigneury(def. 1a)
Quotations
1766
She was villainously seduced by one Moses Hazen, Esq; (who stiles himself Seignior of some Ground adjacent to St. John's) to swerve from her Duty.
1769
Representations . . . have been made to us by the . . . Seigneur of Crane and Goose Islands . . . that by his title he has the exclusive right to shoot on these said Islands.
1833
[Mr. Frazer said] he was so tired of his solitary life that he intended to leave his farm and retire to some property he possessed on the river Du Lout, situated in a district of which he was Seigneur.
1963
Settlement of the land has . . . been the obligation imposed on the seigneurs in New France.
2n.
in French Canada: the holder of a seigneury (def. 1b).
See: seigneury(def. 1b)
Quotations
1962
. . . M. Leduc, a fur trading seigneur, who took him to his manor house, revived him with hot food and drink, and kept him up half the night by the great fire in the hall, telling him wild tales of the Canadian fur trade at Michilimackinac.