seignior

IPA: signˈiɝ

A feudal lord; a nobleman who held his lands by feudal grant; any lord (holder) of a manor
A title of respect, formerly corresponding (especially in France) approximately to Sir.

Examples of "seignior" in Sentences

“As you will, my good seignior,” replied the Bohemian.
"But what must they do then, seignior?" said the Spaniard.
"Why, seignior," says the Spaniard, "by the same rule, we must be your servants, too."
This advice was good: but Will Atkins replied merrily, "That is true, seignior, and so shall I too; and that is the reason I would go on while I am warm."
He behaved with the autocratic entitlement of an old-time seignior, but for him the liaisons were as passionately emotional an d artistic as they were sexual.
Were we to contend with the grand seignior of the east about our enjoyments, we might easily bear down his windy, pompous train of titles with this one, -- which "millies repetitum placebit," -- The gospel, the gospel!
Started on a course not his own, he gives, buys, builds, and exchanges; he assists those belonging to his own society, doing everything in a style becoming to a grand seignior, that is to say, throwing money away by handfuls.
Who would believe that the souls of Garasse, Nonnotte, Paulian, Fréron, and he of Langliviet, calling himself La Beaumelle, were in this respect of the same temper as those of Cæsar, Cicero, St. Cyril, and of the secretary of the grand seignior?
Disdain, even disgust, on the part of the proprietor and seignior for the cultivator and the artisan whose work supported him is one of the most characteristic features of the middle age...the peasant was a creature to exploit at home, and to destroy abroad, and nothing more.