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

The show has also expanded outside the demesne walls.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2023

And as the years progress, she gives up dreams of royalty to focus on the demesne she can control: the convent and its lands.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021

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