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Demain
DEMAIN
,Noun.
1.
A manor-house and the land adjacent or near, which a lord keeps in his own hands or immediate occupation, for the use of his family, as distinguished from his tenemental lands, distributed among his tenants, called book-land, or charter-land, and folk-land, or estates held in villenage, from which sprung copyhold estates. 2.
Estate in lands.Definition 2024
demain
demain
English
Noun
demain (plural demains)
- (obsolete, Britain, law) A demesne, especially the Ancient demesne claimed by William the Conqueror.
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- IPA(key): /də.mɛ̃/
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