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   demesne

   /dɪˈmeɪn/

   noun

   • 1. a piece of land attached to a manor and retained by the owner for their own use: "because labour was cheap, there were ample advantages in cultivating the demesne"
   • ▪ the lands of an estate: "a levy of one tenth on property in the royal demesne"
   • ▪ a region or domain: archaic "she may one day queen it over that fair demesne"
   • 2. possession of real property in one's own right.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French demeine (later Anglo-Norman French demesne) ‘belonging to a lord’, from Latin dominicus, from dominus ‘lord, master’. Compare with domain.

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