seigniorial

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Max 2009

High-swung barouches, with immense armorial bearings on their panels, driven by fat white-wigged coachmen, and having powdered footmen up behind them; seigniorial phaetons; daring tandems; discreet little broughams, brown or yellow; flippant high dog-carts; low but flippant Ralli-carts; very frivolous private hansoms shaming the more serious public ones.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Estate of Bigorre, which called for the abolition of seigniorial rights.

Names 2007

All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as much courtiers as churchmen, added to the gravity of the T. salon, whose seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis de Vib***, the

Les Miserables 2008

It is so easy to oppose the restrictions of law to the cupidity and arrogance of upstart proprietors, to fix the extent of lands which wealthy plebeians may be allowed to purchase, to prevent their acquisition of large seigniorial property and privileges, that a firm and wise government can never have cause to repent of having enfranchised servitude and enriched indigence.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

At times, it's like watching a speeded-up, uncensored newscast of the period -- an effect furthered by the appearance of a channel-surfing procession of broadcast anchors -- an intense, young Dan Rather (what but his age has changed?), a seigniorial Walter Cronkite reciting the number of American dead so far in the conflict and Tom Brokaw with an ungainly farm boy's haircut.

When The Revolution Was Televised 2007

But, in the ensuing series of meetings and rebukes and letters of seigniorial self-justification, Cardinal Egan effectively confirmed every ugly tale told about him.

Don���t Let the Door Hit You, Your Eminence, on the Way Out 2007

The clerk, seeing the flush of seigniorial fever on the face of the imbecile and colossal

Ursula 2006

So she said something vaguely seigniorial and unconsciously cruel to him and paid no attention to his answer except to notice that he called her Dame Alice instead of Madam.

Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

A few members of the seigniorial nobility, the officials and some merchants -- perhaps three hundred in all -- may have gone back to France.

Canada J. G. Bourinot