Definition of "seignior" []

• A man of rank, especially a feudal lord. (noun)
• Used as a form of address for such a man. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "“As you will, my good seignior,” replied the Bohemian."