seigneur

• A young girl named Juliette has been seduced by a young seigneur, and then discovers that this man is an abominable swindler. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
• For a low man to venture to come and stand side by side with such a gentleman as our seigneur, and to proffer words inimical to his authority—words the poorest noble in the world would hardly have endured! —  Charles the Bold
• It's an odd droit du seigneur, the right of the master to sleep with his servant (usually the right to take a servant's virginity). —  GreenCine Daily
• The poor Smith had to reply that the seigneur was no more When the lady heard that the Smith had only turned her husband into a cinder, instead of making him young, she was tremendously angry, and she called together her trusty servants and ordered them to drag him to the gallows. —  Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
• The term seigneur is still used but is now a mere honorary title. —  A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861

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