baronial

Example Sentences

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Frederick Douglass depicted his plantation in Maryland as resembling “what the baronial domains were during the Middle Ages in Europe.”

From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024

The focal point was the baronial great hall, two stories in height and an essentially Renaissance Revival setting, with a towering stained-glass window of a peacock in a garden by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

For years there had been skepticism about the large portrait of George Washington that has long hung in the baronial Paris residence of the U.S. ambassador to France.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2023

The castle itself is an example of Scottish baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Environment Scotland as a category A listed building.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2022

He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in masculine solitude in what might be called the halfacre gunroom of a baronial splendor.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner