transmarine

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Some historians have attributed to the influence of Richelieu this policy of creating a seigneurial class in the transmarine dominions of France.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

Wonders were told concerning pillars inlaid with bronze, amber, ivory, mother of pearl, and transmarine tortoise-shells.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

The laws and language, the manners and titles, of the French nation and Latin church, were introduced into these transmarine colonies.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

The Abbey of Lessay had transmarine jurisdiction and the right of presentation to the Priory of Boxgrove and other endowments in the diocese of Chichester.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

The long struggle was over, and England now retained nothing of her old transmarine possessions save Calais and the Channel Islands.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various