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seigneur seignior [< F] Hist. 
1 n. in French Canada: the legal holder of a seigneury (def. 1a).
See also: seigneury (def. 1a)
- 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 (1878) 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 (1955) [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.
2 n. in French Canada: the holder of a seigneury (def. 1b).
See also: seigneury (def. 1b)
- 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.
- 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.