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demesne
/dəˈmeɪn/
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What does demesne mean?
noun
- A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
- A region or area; a domain.
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IPA pronunciation
/dəˈmeɪn/
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It is obvious that the end-game is the particular demesne of pawn strategy.
Also, "The court of ancient demesne is in the nature of a court-baron, wherein the suitors are judges, and is no court of record."
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Those settled in their own demesne, those who guard the honey-factory wherein their daughters, the heiresses of the maternal establishment, are at work, display wonderful vigilance.
It is rising ground, and in the centre of the demesne, on the top of the hill, stands a fine modern chateau, the property of a distant kinsman of Fritz’s, the Count Stanislas von Tarlenheim.
The garden, therefore, is an ill-defined demesne; but the reader must not make the mistake of defining it by dimensions, for one may have a garden in a flower-pot or on a thousand acres.