Seigneurie

Alternative forms

• seigneury

Origin

From French seigneurie.

Full definition of seigneurie

Noun

1. (French history) An area governed by a seigneur.
• 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 153:Conventionally, seigneuries were divided between, first, the domain land ...; and, second, the tenures (or censives) which were divided among the peasantry and others.
2. (Canada) The estate of a seigneur.
3. (Channel Islands) The official residence of a Seigneur.----