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What (who) is seigneur - definition
seigneur
TITLE OF NOBILITY
Seigneuries; Seigneury; Seigneurs; Seigneuriage
[se?'nj?:]
(also seignior 'se?nj?)
¦ noun a feudal lord; the lord of a manor.
Derivatives
seigneurial adjective
Origin
C16: from OFr., from L. senior 'older, elder'.
Seigneur
TITLE OF NOBILITY
Seigneuries; Seigneury; Seigneurs; Seigneuriage
Seigneur is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. A seigneur refers to the person or collective who owned a seigneurie (or seigneury)—a form of land tenure—as a fief, with its associated rights over person and property.
La Nativité du Seigneur
COMPOSITION BY OLIVIER MESSIAEN
The Nativity of the Lord; The Birth of the Saviour; La Nativite du Seigneur; La nativite du seigneur; La nativité du seigneur
La Nativité du Seigneur (The Nativity of the Lord or The Birth of the Saviour) is a work for organ, written by the French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1935.
Wikipedia
Seigneur
Seigneur is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. A seigneur refers to the person or collective who owned a seigneurie (or seigneury)—a form of land tenure—as a fief, with its associated rights over person and property.
Examples of use of seigneur
1. Sark, just 3 miles long by 1 miles wide, is an independent state granted as a fiefdom to the Seigneur of Sark in perpetuity by the Crown.
2. The Seigneur answers to no one but the Queen and presides over the islands governing council, the Chief Pleas, largely made up of landholders who can trace their privileges back to the resettlement of the island in the 16th century.
3. The master–slave relationship, the tradition of droit du seigneur , the use of sexual possession as an instrument of domination –– all this ugliness floods the mind, unbidden, and refuses to leave.
4. Just as it no longer seems anything like as advantageous to be a king or a duke, in modern times when it is no longer possible to exercise droit de seigneur over passing virgins or chop off people‘s heads, so it is no longer anything like as much fun being top nation.
5. The women could be shockers too, of course – although we will leave Working Girl for another day – but they at least appeared to have a slightly more refined consciousness of what they were doing and tended to use it as a tool rather than just assume droit de seigneur.