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• A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.From the entry specter
• The manor was owned by the local gentry.From the entry gentry
• Upon the occasion of his first publication he quit his day job, only to find that Grub Street wasn't lined with manors and villas but hovels and slums.From the entry Grub Street
• The manor of Scrivelsby in England, has since the Middle Ages, been held by the Marmion family in grand serjeanty in exchange for their service as King's or Queen's Champion.From the entry serjeanty
• It was Chauncey DeGrandis, lord of the manor, trying in vain to assert his lord-dom.2013, Alex Bledsoe, Swords Are My Business. From the entry lorddom
• Although it does have a separate manor house for the 6th formers which is a bit Hogwartsesque.2007 July 12, bren, “Re: My First Grandaughter :)”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet). From the entry Hogwartsesque
• Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld.1987, Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry hidate
• Of this sum, a tithe was payable to the lord of the manor as cliffage.1977, David Rees, A Gower Anthology, page 55. From the entry cliffage
• Alice Duer Miller, erect and fastidious, crowded her manor with clowns and bombinators.1954, Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2020, page 395. From the entry bombinator
• Presently he arrived and mounted the granite boulder as if to the manor born.1911, L. M. Montgomery, The Story Girl, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, page 282. From the entry to the manor born
• Any definition of a manor, in land tenure, must take note of two elements—economic and political.S:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Manor. From the entry political unit
• Wade Hampton was to the manor born.2008, H. W. Crocker, III, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Regnery Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry to the manor born
• Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds.2005, David W. Moore, The Other British Isles, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry John Bull
• The manor has an estate for its basis, although it need not coincide with an estate, but may be wider.S:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Manor. From the entry political unit
• The manor house seemed still as the night itself.1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine, New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company. From the entry triclinium
• "I'm lord of this manor!" he bawled.1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-at-Arms. From the entry bawl
• Even in castles and manor houses space was limited, and rooms including the great hall were used for other functions beyond dining.2004, Melitta Weiss Adamson, Food in Medieval Times, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry great hall
• Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry gambol
• Many of the houses have neat little dormer windows and tall stone chimneys, and Corfe's older buildings include the fine old manor house.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle. From the entry dormer window
• But at long last the summer, high summer, was upon them, with the promised arrival of the four firstcomers to the old manor house.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 398. From the entry firstcomer
• A bailiff had been appointed in each manor since the 17th century to collect cliffage, keelage, and customs charges on exported animals.1977, David Rees, A Gower Anthology, page 55. From the entry cliffage
• "Very active at the moment is “Les Relais de Champagne,” a group of sixty-four hotels, auberges, châteaus, and manor houses scattered all over France."1966, Samuel Chamberlain, 'Bouquet de France: an epicurean tour of the French provinces, page 455. From the entry châteaus
• But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show: The owners of a Lincolnshire stately home have brought the folly into…. From the entry estate
• Lords responded to these offences by amercing (fining) them in the manor court, the revenues of which could provide a twentieth, or even a higher proportion of estate income.2002, Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry amerce
• These institutions of self-government in the Polish countryside, initially designed to empower the peasantry at the expense of the manors, were gradually transformed into instruments of the ruling bureaucracy.1995, Robert E[dward] Blobaum, “[Russian State, Polish Society] The Impact of Agrarian Reform”, in Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1907…. From the entry gmina
• Nothing of the burned manor, the pine house standing over its scattered brick, the shrunken acreage, the worn soil, and the social drop from “grandes mesdames” to country wives.1951, The Arizona Quarterly, page 42. From the entry grande madame
• I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.2019 November 12, Claire North [pseudonym; Catherine Webb], chapter 60, in The Pursuit of William Abbey, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN…. From the entry dine
• The numerous small manors without servile tenants had no alternative but to hire labour and on many demesnes the supply of labour services was inadequate to the requirements of cultivation.2016, Bruce M[ortimer] S[tanley] Campbell, “Efflorescence: The Enabling Environment and the Rise of Latin Christendom”, in The Great…. From the entry glebe farm

Meaning of manor

1. noun A landed estate.
2. noun The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.
3. noun A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.

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Questions about manor in a sentence

How do you use manor in a sentence?

Manor is used as a noun. For example: “A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.”

What is a short sentence with manor?

“But this is my manor.”

What does manor mean?

Manor means a landed estate.