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droit du seigneur

[ French drwa dy se-苍测舱谤 ]

noun

  1. the supposed right claimable by a feudal lord to have sexual relations with the bride of a vassal on her first night of marriage.


droit du seigneur

/ drwa dy s蓻刹艙r /

noun

  1. in feudal times, the right of a lord to have sexual intercourse with a vassal's bride on her wedding night
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of droit du seigneur1

1815鈥25; < French: literally, right of the lord
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of droit du seigneur1

from French, literally: the right of the lord
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No matter how much the chief justice and court spokesperson strain to convince us how cordial and respectful the justice family really is, and that there鈥檚 鈥渘othing to see here鈥 鈥 there is the picture we can see in our minds of a preening, smug and self-righteous Justice Gorsuch, in his very best 鈥渄roit du seigneur鈥 mode, sitting maskless next to an empty chair belonging to his colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who, as he well knows, is over 65 and immunocompromised.

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Andrew Cuomo couldn鈥檛 get a handle on his ego or stop indulging in Albany droit du seigneur.

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So I could not have been more thrilled when #MeToo ripped away the curtain on the murky transgressions and diminishments that women had endured in the droit du seigneur era.

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And it is amazing that, after two centuries of men treating the political landscape here as a droit du seigneur playground, that the one ensnared in an ethics investigation about the new rules enacted last year on sexual harassment 鈥 barring lawmakers from having sexual relationships with staffers 鈥 is a woman.

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When he hears about Gil亚洲网紅露点h鈥檚 exercise of the droit du seigneur, he becomes enraged.

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