(n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
(n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped.
(2) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(3) The manor house in The Private Patient has been sold by its ancestral owners to cover their debts and bought by self-made plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.
(4) • €165 a night, i-escape.com La Mare Chappey, Manche, Normandy Just 20 miles from the ferry port at Cherbourg, this collection of cottages in the grounds of a 16th-century manor house is perfect for a hassle-free family holiday.
(5) Sue Manor, 66, of Hendersonville, spoke of her "agonising" wait for the all-clear.
(6) Campaigning in Averham and Bingham, Helmer criticised the personal wealth of Jenrick, who has a Herefordshire manor, and two properties in London as well as a rented place near Newark.
(7) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
(8) Photograph: Adam Gerrard Dr David Drew A former clinical director of Walsall Manor hospital, Dr David Drew was dismissed in December 2010 after voicing concerns about what he said was a huge cost-cutting exercise.
(9) The location is likely to afford Assange some privacy, since it is impossible to reach the manor house without trespassing on Smith's land.
(10) This article presents a brief account of the University of Evansville's use of Harlaxton Manor, located in England.
(11) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
(12) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(13) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(14) …………………………………………………… We were Bronzeville girls until I was three and Denise six; then we moved to Park Manor.
(15) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
(16) Mahmood took another royal scalp in 2005 when he posed as a property tycoon interested in buying Princess Michael of Kent’s 17th-century Cotswolds manor house.
(17) HS2 will pass close to the modest housing estates of west Aylesbury and at a more respectful distance from Waddesdon Manor, a French chateau built on a wooded hill by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1874.
(18) Woolhope Woodheat plans to install its first boiler at Canon Frome Court , a community of about 50 people living in a Georgian manor and 40-acre organic farm in Herefordshire.
(19) Appearance: Very like the pavilion from the reconstructed 18th-century Swedish manor house in Stockholm on which it is based, but smaller, for ducks.
(20) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
Medieval
Definition:
() Alt. of Medievalist
Example Sentences:
(1) In places it succumbs to over-commercialisation but this is still one of the finest medieval towns in Europe.
(2) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(3) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(4) "It is time for parliament to consider the increasingly urgent matter of the Prince of Wales's status and to modernise this medieval situation," Berkeley said.
(5) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
(6) The medieval church spires of rural England are to bring superfast broadband to the remotest of dwellings, with the Church of England offering their use as communication towers.
(7) Album four, The Future Is Medieval , debuted on the band's website this summer.
(8) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
(9) Kids can roll their sleeves up and dig for skeletons, dress up as Romans, handle neolithic artefacts, go metal detecting, learn medieval royal etiquette, take a lesson in stone-age survival skills, and take part in period-focused workshops.
(10) Though often described as "medieval", militant groups are actually extremely modern, with a worldview built from a mixture of very contemporary religious and secular sources.
(11) We need to be really, really clear that they are basing their whole world view on a kind of medieval, violent, revolting ideology that, by the way, is a total and utter aberration and distortion of what the vast, vast, vast majority of the millions of Muslims around the world believe in.
(12) Which isn’t, perhaps, so different to the role of priests and believers in medieval Britain.
(13) At this time the dramatist begins with the reception of the medieval mystery plays, Calderon and the greek-oriental myths.
(14) Wanting to improve the view from his house, and provide some extra work for local stonemasons, Allen commissioned this almost Disneyish idea of a medieval ruin.
(15) He relates details of the recent digital intrusion – purportedly sparked by his decision to relocate a 1947 memorial to Soviet war dead from a park in Tallinn, which angered some ethnic Russians living in Estonia's medieval walled capital – when I visit him at his family farm, near Abja Parish , some 40 miles inland from the Gulf of Riga.
(16) In it, Rostow tried to find a common pattern in the history of the economic growth of different societies, from the traditional society, such as medieval Europe or ancient China, where a high proportion of the population was engaged in agriculture and trade exchanges were largely local to an age of high mass consumption, in which society generates a sustainable surplus to improve living standards.
(17) Galavant, a medieval comedy musical filmed in Bristol, features appearances from Ricky Gervais and Vinnie Jones.
(18) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(19) On virtually every street corner, there's a gorgeous church designed by Christopher Wren to fill the gaps after the great fire of 1666, which destroyed the medieval city.
(20) You'll pedal through picture-perfect fishing villages, past medieval turreted towers and traverse Lahemaa, Estonia's first national park ( visitestonia.com ).