seigneurie

• seigneury

From French seigneurie.

seigneurie (plural seigneuries)

1. (French historical) 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.

Middle French, from Old French signorie. Equivalent to seigneur +‎ -ie.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.ɲœ.ʁi/

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seigneurie f (plural seigneuries)

1. (French historical, Canada) seigneurie
2. seigniory; fiefdom, domain

• “seigneurie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).