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

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

The family that had once owned land on a baronial scale now needed charity to eat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 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