Definition of "seignorial" []

• In the Middle Ages, relating to or befitting of a nobleman. (adjective)

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• "The rich, painterly textures and sober use of color in his "matter paintings" lent a moving solemnity - the critic John Russell referred to their "seignorial dignity" - to works that "seemed to have been not so much painted as excavated from an idiosyncratic compound of mud, sand, earth, dried blood and powdered minerals.""
• "Though this hut owed to the neighborhood of the town a few improvements which were wholly absent from such buildings that were five or six miles further off, it showed plainly enough the instability of domestic life and habits to which the wars and customs of feudality had reduced the serf; even to this day many of the peasants of those parts call a seignorial chateau, "The Dwelling.""
• "Defenders of seignorial rights tried to turn the tables on the Physiocrats by contending that these rights were "natural" properties acquired legitimately through contracts freely entered into by tenants."