demesne
Example Sentences
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“In our house things were either broken or not used at all,” the 14-year-old says of her chaotic home, a once-grand demesne neglected by Caithleen’s volatile father.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
A couple of centuries or so later, the peninsula became part of a Spanish land grant, and the demesne of Manuel Dominguez as his Rancho San Pedro.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
The show has also expanded outside the demesne walls.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2023
This was especially the case in England, where the aristocracy was more dependent on the cultivation of the demesne.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2020
The peasant moves the boundary stone And steals the lord’s demesne.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
