seigniory
/ˈseɪnjəri
/(also seigneury)
noun (plural seigniories)
A feudal lordship; the position, authority, or domain of a feudal lord: he succeeded to the seigniory...
- He held the seigniory of Aubigny in France, to which his son succeeded in 1567.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French seignorie, from seigneur (see seigneur).
- like a (hot) knife through butter
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like a leech
- like a man (or woman) possessed
- like a moth to the flame
- like anything
- like a rat up a drainpipe
- like a ripe plum (or ripe plums)
- like a scalded cat
- like a shag on a rock
- like a shot
- like a streak
- like a stunned mullet
- like a ton of bricks
- like blazes
- like blue murder
- like clockwork
- like crazy
- like death warmed up (or over)
- like enough (or most like)
- like father, like son
- like fury
- like (greased) lightning
- like hell
- like herding cats